From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 23 11:44:48 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19318 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:44:48 -0800 Received: from bigdipper.umd.edu (bigdipper.umd.edu [128.8.220.139]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA19310 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:44:45 -0800 Received: (from adhir@localhost) by bigdipper.umd.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id OAA27144; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 14:44:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 14:44:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Alok K. Dhir" To: bmk@dtr.com cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: RTFM (was Re: problems with inn port) In-Reply-To: <199503230639.WAA28535@dtr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Mar 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote: > I've compiled and configured the news/inn port... When I fire up > /etc/rc.news, I get the following on my syslog: > > Mar 22 22:29:50 everest innd: ME descriptors 128 > Mar 22 22:29:50 everest innd: ME outgoing 115 > Mar 22 22:29:50 everest innd: /usr/local/news/lib/history cant dbminit ME No > such file or directory > > innd then dies without further comment. > > innd -s does not report any errors with my newsgroups file, and I have > run makehistory. This is on a fresh news install. > > Anyone want to clue me in as to what I've missed? Sure - use makehistory -f. Look at "man news.recovery" and the INN FAQ for more info. -------------------------------------___--------------------------------- | Al Dhir, Programmer Analyst /___\ UMCP Ag-Engineering Dept | | Internet: adhir@bigdipper.umd.edu (o o) (301) 405-1197 | ---------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-----------------------------