From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 21 09:41:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA22787 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrail.net (netrail.net [205.215.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA22777; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.5/Netrail) with SMTP id MAA20192; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:41:17 GMT Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:41:17 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" To: Gary Palmer cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News Revisited In-Reply-To: <22988.869502958@orion.webspan.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I checked the logs and found... Jul 21 12:40:47 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22378 Jul 21 12:40:47 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1 pid 22378 Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22378 closed Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22380 Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1 pid 22380 Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22380 closed Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22381 Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1 pid 22381 Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22381 closed Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22382 Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1 pid 22382 Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22382 closed Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22383 Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1 pid 22383 Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22383 closed Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22384 Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated Server Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Gary Palmer wrote: :"Jonathan A. Zdziarski" wrote in message ID :: :> OK. Running inn. Set up fine, works fine, only our links with other :> people aren't working - we're getting no news coming in from uunet or :> anywhere else. nntplink is set up and working (you can see the proc's :> running), and its saving to in.coming, but the messages are not saving to :> our disk. I've so far had to learn inn in a total of about 10 hours of :> work, so I'm not familiar with how this process works. Anybody have any :> bright ideas on how to get this going/check to see if its configured :> properly? : :So you have inn running properly, and stuff is being saved in :in.coming? From readers (i.e. postings from customers) or your feeds? : :>From memory nntplink is only for the outbound news link, and has :nothing to do with inbound articles. : :I have abslutely no idea why you are getting rnews batches in your :in.coming directory if you are running innd and it is accepting the :connections on port 119, but you can run 'rnews -U' to `unbatch' the :stuff in in.coming. : :What would be helpful is setting syslogd up to log the news facility :and looking in there for error messages. : :Gary :-- :Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member :FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info :