From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 15:13:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA20515 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20483 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ag25157; 27 May 96 22:13 GMT Received: from aj209.du.pipex.com ([193.130.249.209]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa16842; 27 May 96 23:06 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA10493; Mon, 27 May 1996 19:41:37 GMT Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:41:37 GMT Message-Id: <199605271941.TAA10493@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: ele@eece.unm.edu CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199605270534.XAA00681@localhost.unm.edu.> (ele@localhost.unm.edu) Subject: Re: QUESTION - how to set up news spool Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a tutorial or something out there on how to set up a news > spool? I'm running FreeBSD-2.1.0 and use 'suck' to suck in a few > newsgroups. Now I'd like to use tin to read the news, but apparently > don't have things set up right (what dir I should suck the articles to > ,how to set up the config files, etc.). Which News server are you running? If it's INN, there's a very good FAQ for it (should be at rtfm.mit.edu and the other usual places - drop me a line if you can't find it and I'll mail you a copy). Do you even have a News server running? > The error I get when I run tin is: > > tin 1.2 PL2 [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-93 Iain Lea. > Reading news active file...Active file corrupt - comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce > > /usr/local/lib/news/active contains no newsgroups. Exiting. Is this the correct path to your active file? If so, the active file probably *is* corrupt - sometimes a load of junk gets written into it if the system crashes. To fix this with INN, throttle the server and edit the file. If it's beyond repair, delete it and run 'makeactive' ('man news-recovery' for details). If it's not the right path, tin is misconfigured and needs straightening out. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk