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From: au141@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Amber M. Spillers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] help, RN works fine but I can't get NN to build its database
Message-ID: <1g0md3INN1cg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: 7 Dec 92 23:23:15 GMT
Reply-To: au141@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Amber M. Spillers)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu
I am trying to set up a usenet feed on my 386BSD box, I have jury
rigged a "pretend" feed fomr my existing one (I did not use UUCICO but
instead created the directory structure, copied the files and created
the active file by hand.).
rn works fine, I can read the two groups I installed and it all looks
fine. nn will not boot it says it can't access the MASTER file which as
far as I can tell is a subject database to speed up searching and such.
from the documentation it says I should make sure that nnmaster (the
program which supposedly builds the database) can write to the directory
where master can be kept (it can). but nnmaster always complains that
it is already running (it is not) and it wil not build the database so I
can't really run any of the other nn programs (like nnadmin) until the
MASTER file has been created to see if anythign else is up.
ay response to this is most appreciated, even responses like "don't
use nn newsreader X is better" because I am looking for some good news
readers.
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