[leafnode-list] Re: Installation/configuration problems, help please

[Chris G]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:57:20PM -0500, David Rosen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to get leafnode running on an xubuntu 9.04 system.  I have
> > done a perfectly standard ubuntu type install of version 1.11.7.rc1-10
> > (i.e. apt-get etc.) and it appears to be installed OK.
> >
> > However I can't get anything much to happen.
> >
> > The installation has inserted the expected entries in /etc/inetd.conf
> > but when I run tin (my newsreader) I just get a message saying that it
> > has failed to connect to the NNTP server - as if it's simply not
> > getting run.
> >
> > I was expecting to be able to run tin from the spool (rather than via
> > NNTP) as the leafnode home page says:-
> >
> >    Leafnode works perfectly with most common newsreaders either via
> >    NNTP or with traditional spool access.
> >
> > ... but the leafnode FAQ says:-
> >
> >    Q:  Tin complains about a missing file /var/lib/news/active.
> >
> >    A:  Either you have started the wrong version of tin (the one which
> > tries
> >        to read news directly from the spool) or your groupinfo file is
> > corrupt.
> >
> >        In the first case, simply invoke tin with the -r flag: tin -r.  If
> > this
> >        does not help, try to rebuild the groupinfo file by running
> > fetchnews
> >        -f.
> >
> >
> > What should I be looking at to see why it's not working?
> >
> Have you run fetchnews to fill the spool?
> 
Yes, I think so, though there's no clue anywhere in the documentation
that one needs to do that.  The default leafnode installation in
ubuntu adds entries to /etc/cron.d and /etc/cron.daily so it would
seem that it will get run.  It's now some hours since I installed so
*something* should have got run.

Anyway surely tin should still see an NNTP server even if no news has
been collected yet.

-- 
Chris Green