From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 10:45:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA13541 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from glacier.cold.org (glacier.cold.org [206.81.134.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13529 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:44:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by glacier.cold.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00897 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:45:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:45:00 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: WHAT?? Re: INND -D error help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Bill Henderson wrote: >> I am getting this error from INND -D but have ran the makehistory >> script file to create this file anyone have an Idea ? >> >> innd: ME descriptors 64 >> innd: ME outgoing 51 >> innd: /usr/local/news/lib/history cant dbminit ME No such file or directory >> > > Make sure you move history.n.dir and history.n.pag to history.dir > and history.pag respectively What?? Shouldn't the port patch 'makehistory' so that it does this automatically. Why does makehistory create .n. files at all? Why doesnt it create the right files? If anything shouldnt the port patch the man page on history(5) to TELL you to do this? Sorry--this isn't against you Marc, but I've just spent 5 days trying to figure out why this didn't work only to find out its because the software itself is FKD up? Should I not be frustrated? This seems rather important to me for new admins when installing innd to be TOLD of major problems like this that require a magical undocumented fix? *grump* -Brandon Gillespie