greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) (10/04/89)
I've recently landed the job of news administrator at our site, and NEED HELP with inews's weirdness!. For some reason, newsgroup directories are NOT being created when articles for new newsgroups arrive, or are posted from our site. I can't see any way to check what inews is doing when articles for a new newsgroup (ie: created by someone at another site) arrive - but they ALWAYS land in junk. Once I manually create the directory, the next batch of news to arrive goes there; but why do I have to create it?????. Posting from our site (ie: with postnews) fails, and the article lands in junk.... I tried posting a test message to comp.sw.components; which has only just been created here.... Postnews says: Posting article... mkdir: "/usr/spool/news/comp/sw": Permission denied mkdir: "/usr/spool/news/comp/sw/components": No such file or directory inews: Link into /usr/spool/news/comp/sw/components/1 failed (No such file or directory); check dir permissions. inews: Newsgroups in active, but not sys Article posted successfully. And whattayaknow; the article ends up in junk. As far as I can tell, I'm using B news (I dunno.... the system was made before I even worked here!); various files & permissions look like: -rwsr-sr-x 2 news news 114616 Mar 31 1989 /usr/local/lib/news/inews -rwxr-xr-x 1 news news 55168 Mar 31 1989 /usr/local/bin/postnews drwxrwxr-x 35 news news 560 Sep 25 16:46 /usr/spool/news/comp Can anyone tell me what's going on???. thanks, Greyham. -- /* Greyham Stoney: Australia: (02) 428 6476 * * greyham@hades.oz - Ausonics Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Sydney, Oz. * * TDMP/IP: Telepathic Direct Marketing Personel Interface Protocol */