jkimball@SRC.Honeywell.COM (John Kimball) (12/11/89)
This past weekend I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade from B2.11.14 to
B2.11.19 .
I was careful to disable anything which would try to run inews, while the
install was going on. I did 'make update' after 'make install', and then
tried to run an 'expire -r -I -e 999999 -E 999999'. But expire died, saying
Bogus local distribution rejected
I tried some variations on the arguments, but always got the same result.
As far as I could tell the active file was in the new format and correct.
(Not sure if this is related, but inews refused any attempts of mine to
test-post an article, saying "Dec 9 09:43 local Duplicate article
<41961@src.honeywell.com> rejected. Path: jkimball".)
So, I've backed out to 2.11.14.
I'm sure that this problem has been seen before; what am I missing? I'd
really like to move beyond 2.11.14. (So far I'm intending to stick to B
news rather than C news because it sounds like C requires more tweaking if
you run NNTP, which we do.)
Thanks!
John Kimball
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voice: 612/782-7343 fax: 612/782-7438 Minneapolis, MN 55418-1006ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) (12/12/89)
From: jkimball@SRC.Honeywell.COM (John Kimball) Date: 11 Dec 89 03:10:16 GMT I'm sure that this problem has been seen before; what am I missing? I'd really like to move beyond 2.11.14. (So far I'm intending to stick to B news rather than C news because it sounds like C requires more tweaking if you run NNTP, which we do.) Absolutely untrue. If you have the latest NNTP and an up-to-date C News, all you have to do is install C News, compile NNTP with C News defined, and voila! A particularly delightful side effect is that you will never again run completely out of space in /usr/spool/news. If things get tight, batches will start piling up in /usr/spool/news/in.coming. If things get any tighter, your NNTP daemon will start refusing articles. When the next expire makes room, things will automatically start unpacking... I'm not sure I'd want to run a B News/NNTP site ever again. AMBAR