From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 15:59:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27093 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk (root@irwell.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27053 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dm@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com (man-164.dialup.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.40.208]) by irwell.zetnet.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA16958; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:58:42 +0100 Received: (from dm@localhost) by bigfoot.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) id XAA02089; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:23:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dm) Message-Id: <199806232223.XAA02089@bigfoot.com> Subject: Re: leafnode: Can't find group information file (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199806200033.BAA12615@awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Jun 20, 98 01:33:28 am" To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:23:58 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-Questions List) Reply-To: drmarsh@bigfoot.com From: David Marsh Organization: David_Marsh@HOME: see signature for information. X-No-Archive: yes X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The leafnode config files are: > > > > # ll /usr/lib/leafnode > > total 4 > > drwxrwxrwx 2 news news 512 Jun 14 02:25 ./ > > drwxrwxrwx 4 bin bin 2048 Jun 11 23:14 ../ > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 news news 136 Jun 13 10:55 config* > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 news news 0 Jun 14 02:25 groupinfo* > > Hmmm, last time I installed it, it created /usr/local/lib/leafnode - > I'll bet you've just got config.sample there :-/ Ignore the docs if > they say otherwise ! Thanks for that tip, that's the right answer! Most bizarre: the installation had generated the 'config' file in /usr/local/lib/leafnode, which did contain the server name I'd added to the config file which I thought was supposed to be in /usr/lib/leafnode. Maybe I'd had to give that information during the compilation process, I can't remember. Anyway, I touched /usr/local/lib/leafnode/groupinfo into existence, and now leafnode works. All I had to do was delete most of the entries in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ to prevent fetch from going off to grab the contents of _all_ of usenet first time around after fetching the complete newsgroup list from my ISP! One more question if you don't mind: what would be the best way for me to check for new news when I'm online: could I add a call to fetch from ppp.linkup? It's a little annoying to have to crank up another root xterm to fetch news when I'm really the only user. Thanks very much for your help, Dave. -- David Marsh,drmarsh@bigfoot.com | http://squelch.home.ml.org/ | Glasgow/Glaschu, Scotland. *If urgent, phone: +44 141 400-0577.* | >> CYCLEWAY: cycle activism GB/IE: http://squelch.home.ml.org/cycleway/ << >> includes bikes on public transport, and cycle organisation directories << To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message