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Subject: Re: inn: no_space2
To: rg@plusnet.de (Richard Gresek)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:02:27 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611132348.AAA16231@gds.de> from "Richard Gresek" at Nov 14, 96 00:47:36 am
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> Hallo,
> 
> thanks for the help I=B4ve got from this list for the installation of 
> inn.
> 
> Now, inn is up and running and gets his feed. 
> 
> But when I try to connect with a news-client from the PC, the PC 
> gives me the message "503 NNTP server unavailable". 
> The FreeBSD host says:
> 
> Nov 14 00:42:30 pluto nnrpd[282]: pc1.plusnet.de connect
> Nov 14 00:42:30 pluto nnrpd[282]: pc1.plusnet.de internal no_space2 "..." 
> Nov 14 00:42:30 pluto nnrpd[282]: pc1.plusnet.de internal no_space2 "..." 
> Nov 14 00:42:30 pluto nnrpd[282]: pc1.plusnet.de cant getgrouplist Undefin=
> ed error: 0
> Nov 14 00:42:30 pluto nnrpd[282]: pc1.plusnet.de exit articles0 groups 0 
> Nov 14 00:42:30 pluto nnrpd[282]: pc1.plusnet.de times user 0.014 system 0=
> .007 elapsed 0.014 



(This belongs on news.software.nntp...  it has nothing to do with FreeBSD
itself.)



I would estimate that your active file is messed up.

Shut down news.

% vi /usr/local/news/active
:se list
3b.config 0000000753 0000000715 y$
3b.misc 0000001069 0000001039 y$
3b.test 0000002557 0000002495 y$

Make sure there is precisely one space after the group and before the
number.  Make sure you have enough digits (notice I use 10).  Make sure
there is precisely one space before and after the second number.  Etc.
This is not a whitespace tolerant file.  That is what the complaint is
hinting at.  No blank lines allowed.  No extra spaces.

... JG