From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 21:43:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA14032 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:43:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from zip.io.org (root@zip.io.org [198.133.36.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA14026 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:43:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by zip.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA22729; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:42:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:42:25 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: lray@aurora.liunet.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INN port problems In-Reply-To: <96021411175446@aurora.liunet.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Feb 1996 lray@aurora.liunet.edu wrote: > > I've installed INN from the port, but I cannot seem to configure it > correctly. I keep getting "File exists writing symlinking article file -- > throttling" errors, and even though I tried compiling without MMAP as the > FAQ suggests, the errors won't go away. Have you tried renumbering your active file to see if that fixes the problem? See the ctlinnd command. > If anyone has a working INN installation and can help me I'd appreciate it. > I'd like to see a copy of a good config.data file. If someone could post > one and/or mail one to me, I'd be greatful. The config.data-FreeBSD-2.0 (with one minor addition) from the inn-1.4unoff3 distribution at ftp.math.psu.edu works very well here. It was missing _PATH_AUTHDIR, but copying the definition from config.dist fixed that up. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"