From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 25 17:33:50 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA21813 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:33:50 -0800 Received: from seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (seldon.apanix.apana.org.au [192.203.213.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA21799 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:33:37 -0800 Received: from ldjpc.apana.org.au (ldjpc.apana.org.au [192.203.213.254]) by seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA12236; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 12:03:28 +0930 Received: (from jj@localhost) by ldjpc.apana.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA00439; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 16:58:59 +0930 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 16:58:58 +0930 (CST) From: Lucas James To: bmk@dtr.com cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: 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? After you run makehistory, it makes the files history, history.n.pag and history.n.dir You must rename the history.n.* to history.* ie: mv history.n.pag history.pag mv history.n.dir history.dir Fire up the server, and duck for cover ! YMMV of course. -- Lucas James jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au