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>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.


Umm.. no. :) Opps.. The *.news stuff in syslog was commented out. Here is
what the log files are saying now :


(news.crit)
Oct 12 00:43:47 luke innd: /usr/local/news/lib/history cant dbminit SERVER
No su
ch file or directory

(news.notice)
Oct 12 00:43:47 luke innd: SERVER descriptors 360
Oct 12 00:43:47 luke innd: SERVER outgoing 347
Oct 12 00:43:47 luke innd: /usr/local/news/lib/history cant dbminit SERVER
No su
ch file or directory

(news.err)
Oct 12 00:43:47 luke innd: /usr/local/news/lib/history cant dbminit SERVER
No su
ch file or directory


If I run ./makehistory, it generates a blank history file in
/usr/local/news/lib. Is this the proper way to do it?