On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:02:26PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> John Clarke wrote:
> >
> > Before you do that, have you tried running `makehistory'? Once that's
> > done, rename history.n.dir and history.n.pag to history.dir and
> > history.pag, chown them to news:news and then start innd. It should
> > work then.
>
> Okay, I've been through this, started innd and now I get
> May 30 21:59:50 owl innd: SERVER descriptors 1024
> May 30 21:59:50 owl innd: SERVER outgoing 1011
> May 30 21:59:50 owl innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /usr/local/news/db/history
> Numerical argument out of domain
Terry,
This is the error you get if you simply create three empty files (it's
either history.dir or history.pag that causes this error). You need to
stop innd, delete history*, create the files with makehistory, fixup the
permissions and names, then restart innd.
I did all this on my news server yesterday, that's how I figured out
what you needed to do. I can't remember the exact details, so I'll do
it all again:
[root@wombat ~]# cd /var/lib/news/
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# ls -l history*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 1746228 May 31 10:01 history
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 184 May 31 10:06 history.dir
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 262148 May 31 04:02 history.pag
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# /etc/init.d/innd stop
Stopping INND service: [ OK ]
Stopping INN actived service: [ OK ]
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# mkdir save
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# mv history* save
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# ls -l history*
ls: history*: No such file or directory
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# /etc/init.d/innd start
Starting INND system: [ OK ]
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# tail -2 /var/log/news/news.notice
May 31 10:09:34 wombat actived[13010]: started
May 31 10:09:34 wombat innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /var/lib/news/history No such
file or directory
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# /etc/init.d/innd stop
Stopping INN actived service: [ OK ]
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# makehistory
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# mv history.n.dir history.dir
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# mv history.n.pag history.pag
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# chown news:news history*
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# ls -l history*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 1626333 May 31 10:10 history
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 84 May 31 10:10 history.dir
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 262148 May 31 10:10 history.pag
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# /etc/init.d/innd start
Starting INND system: [ OK ]
[root@wombat /var/lib/news]# tail -10 /var/log/news/news.notice
May 31 10:11:26 wombat innd: SERVER starting
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: starting
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded
$inn::controlprogs/checkgroups.pl
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded $inn::controlprogs/ihave.pl
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded $inn::controlprogs/newgroup.pl
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded $inn::controlprogs/rmgroup.pl
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded $inn::controlprogs/sendme.pl
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded $inn::controlprogs/sendsys.pl
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded $inn::controlprogs/senduuname.pl
May 31 10:11:26 wombat controlchan[13088]: loaded $inn::controlprogs/version.pl
Try these steps and see what happens.
Cheers,
John
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