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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
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Message-ID: <1skuksINN5r8@alvman.RoBIN.de>
References: <TONY.93May2175341@marge.apana.org.au>
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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

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