From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 12 00:05:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA03870 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from twwells.com (mail@mtholly1-2.slip.netaxs.com [207.8.212.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA03863 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:05:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from news@twwells.com) Received: from news by twwells.com with local (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xKI3K-00002p-00; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 03:03:02 -0400 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inn port Message-ID: <61psgh$st1$1@twwells.com> References: Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 03:03:02 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , Shawn Ramsey wrote: : I know this isnt exactly the right place to ask this.. but I have a pretty : simple question about INN. (I think :) ). Should the INN port run "out of : the box" ? It seems to boot ok, no error message, and : 12183 p0 I 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.news : 12184 p0 I 0:00.10 /bin/sh /usr/local/news/bin/innwatch Hm...I don't know about the port but that really looks like either a hang in rc.news or that innd died after being started, and with innwatch having been started, I expect the latter. : Nothing is generated in the log files(/var/log/news). Does your /etc/syslog.conf point news to those files? Keep in mind that wherever news is logged, the files must exist at the time that syslog is started or given a SIGHUP, otherwise it won't write to those files. -- ** Tired of getting spam? Check out http://www.junkproof.com/ for an answer.