From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 20:24:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA00249 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:24:12 -0800 Received: from smople.thehub.com.au ([203.17.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA00239 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:24:06 -0800 Received: (from richard@localhost) by smople.thehub.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA16980; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:18:04 GMT Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:18:04 +0000 () From: Richard J Uren To: "Jeff B. Bolton" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <9510292232.ab00883@cmap.zenox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Jeff B. Bolton wrote: > Greetings all....We're running FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE and CNEWS as > our news server. I've been searching, but have been unable to locate any > clear documentation on CNEWS. Does such a thing exist??? I've not found any. > The problem I'm having is that the news server seems to be receiving > news, but is not "tossing" it. There has been NOTHING new in the newsgroups > since Oct 21, yet the log files show that we're receiving incoming packets > every hour or so. It would seem that the news spooler is "paused" > somehow.....Can anyone suggest what I might try to get it spooling properly > again???? (A system reboot didn't help).... We've just had a similar problem. All news was being placed into the 'junk' newsgroup (in the 'log' it says the artice was junked). The problem was no 'active' file in the lib/news directory. Once youve got one of those use it to make the news directory structure. Seems to be Ok now ..... Hope this helps. Richard (richard@thehub.com.au)