Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:01:19 -0800 From: "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com> To: "Darren Wyn Rees" <merlin@A470.demon.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How can I start innd ( newsgroup server )? Message-ID: <001d01c0b6ad$4113d4b0$9c10123d@thomasq1rx10yf> References: <002601c0b6a2$edc4d1b0$9c10123d@thomasq1rx10yf> <E14hbaR-0008Pl-0U@anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Wyn Rees" <merlin@A470.demon.co.uk> To: "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: Re: How can I start innd ( newsgroup server )? > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 01:47:25 -0800, you wrote in > <002601c0b6a2$edc4d1b0$9c10123d@thomasq1rx10yf> : > > >anyone have idea? > > It *depends*. > > Have you tried > > su news -c /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/inn.html > > Provide more information/diagnostics on your problem. > > -- > Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk > ASK your ISP to ADD the NEW england.* Newsgroups > http://www.england.news-admin.org/accessfaq.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Then I started up innd with this command: # su news -c /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news This account is currently not available. Ahhh, this one took me a while to figure out. It means the news user has not been set up. So I started up vipw and made the entry for news look like this. Use <ESCAPE> <W> <Q> to save. Use <ESCAPE> <Q> <!> to discard changes. news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem:/usr/local/news:/bin/sh Then I tried again: but why I still got This account is currently not available msg? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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