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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
- Subject: Re: Summary: Problems & Solutions getting INN to work
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 11:00:46 -0500
- Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
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- In <1e08diINNkce@apache.dtcc.edu> weave@apache.dtcc.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
-
- >Tom Limoncelli's "Debugging guide to Inn" that was posted to
- >news.software.nntp was a VERY useful tool. Rich Saltz's FAQ list was also
-
- (blush) Thanks!
-
- >The newsfeeds file was tough. I read tfm a few times before I spied upon
- >the meaning of ME (my fault), though it never hit me that this was
- >a default entry that all other entries are taken from.
-
- I hope Rich adds to the newsfeeds man page that "ME:!*::" makes a really
- good "ME" line. (Listening Rich?)
-
- >What would help newcomers I believe is an example of a minimal newsfeeds
- >setup for a new site that has one site feeding them, and be able to
- >post stuff back to that site.
-
- Agreed. I tried to include "cookbook" examples of the common kinds of
- feeds that people usually use in the doc I wrote, but I don't think I
- did a great job.
-
- >Another mistake I made was running news.daily manually as root the first
- >time. That created all kind of files with owner root. The next few
- >times news.daily ran, it'd fail in various places with file permission
- >errors. I had to run around and chown stuff back to news... Stupid
- >mistake on my part.
-
- Agreed. news.daily needs to check to see if it's running as "news"
- and refuse to run otherwise. ...and the man page needs to stress this.
-
- >I realise that I have the "double hosts" problem in my path and how I
- >should fix it. At this point, "I couldn't care less"!!! :-) Seems
- >trivial right now!
-
- It's in the man page but it's not easy to find. Hopefully Rich will make
- it stand out more or mention in the sample inn.conf that people will
- usually want it to be "off" (or is it "on"? I can't remember now.).
-
- >Some outstanding questions:
-
- >What do I do with the moderators file? Do I just leave it to send stuff
- >to my nearest well-connected site or do I take the news posting of moderated
- >newsgroups from the news.answers group and munge it there. Is this file
- >updated when a newgroup for a moderated group comes through?
-
- The best "moderator" file is just:
-
- *:%s@uunet.uu.net
-
- >Am I going to have problems running mthreads in daemon mode? Is it going
- >to trip over anything? For example, while news.daily runs, it throttles
- >the server. Will mthreads kick in and modify something he shouldn't
- >while news.daily is running?
-
- I don't know. I don't run mthreads in daemon mode and I'm waiting for
- everyone to adopt the "nov" standard so I don't have to keep the mthreads
- database and the NN database.
-
- Good luck!
- Tom
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