[news.software.b] inews not creating spool directory?

kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson) (07/12/89)

Are there any known conditions under which 'inews -C' will:

  -- regurgitate what looks (from having looked inews.c) like the proper
     response, with the -n, -c, -d, and -a arguments;
  -- put the name of the given newsgroup in LIBDIR/active;
  -- put what seem like reasonable messages in LIBDIR/log

but still not create a /usr/spool/news/... directory?  No doubt I'm doing
something flaky, I'm new to creating local newsgroups, but any hints on what
to look for?

netnews B-2.11 patch 14.  Exactly, I'm typing in any of the following (same results):

  inews -d local -C ria.general moderated < /dev/null
  inews -C ria.general moderated < /dev/null
  inews -C ria.general < /dev/null
  inews -C ria.general     (desperationg ...)

And LIBDIR/log prints:
Jul 11 15:41	local	posted <1335@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> ng ria.general.ctl subj 'newgroup ria.general' from root@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (root)
Jul 11 15:41	local	Ctl Msg ria.general.ctl from root: newgroup ria.general 
Jul 11 15:41	local	<1335@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> sent to eos.arc.nasa.gov

Thanks in advance, etc. (let me know if this should go to news.admin or news.sysadmin).

Kevin Thompson
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kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov     Sterling Software/Nasa-Ames Research Center

karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (07/12/89)

That's the correct thing you have happening when you do inews -C.  The
spool directory is not created until an article arrives for the group.
For example, in the last day or two, talk.rape was created, but there
had been no articles posted to it.  I just posted a (very local) test
article there, which led to these messages in my log:

Jul 11 21:43	dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu
	posted <KARL.89Jul11214341@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu> ng talk.rape
	subj 'test' from karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Jul 11 21:43	dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu
	make newsgroup talk.rape in dir /usr/spool/news/talk/rape

The directory was created when the first article arrived.  Perfectly
normal.

--Karl
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