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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hotb.RoBIN.de!alvman.RoBIN.de!not-for-mail From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: inn-1.03 problems Date: 10 May 1993 09:01:34 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1skuksINN5r8@alvman.RoBIN.de> References: <TONY.93May2175341@marge.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: alvman.robin.de tony@marge.apana.org.au (Tony Clark) writes: >Hi, >I ftp'd inn 1.03 from alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu's 386bsd collection, reconfigured >some of the path names to suit my machine (no bash / gawk, spool in >/var/spool/news) re-configured and re-compiled. The problem now is that when I >attempt to start innd, I get: >May 2 17:39:16 marge innd: ME descriptors 64 >May 2 17:39:16 marge innd: ME outgoing 52 >May 2 17:39:16 marge innd: /usr/local/news/history cant dbminit ME No such >file or directory >I have used makehistory and makeactive to generate replacement active and >history files from my old news system. The initialized files history.dir and history.pag are created under a modified name. I think it was history.n.dir and history.n.pag. You must rename then and then everything works just fine. Andreas -- Andreas Haakh \ ah@alvman.RoBIN.de In den Wingerten 21 \ +49 6150 82904 6100 Darmstadt-Wixhausen \____________________________________