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#! rnews 1602 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!izzy.net!news From: "Patrick S. Roberts (NTT)" <root@execu.comshare.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: INND Problems Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 16:42:57 -0800 Organization: National TechTeam Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <30D0C491.3C270279@execu.comshare.com> References: <30CCB01E.5895264@execu.comshare.com> <joej-1212950042050001@joesmac.ultranet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: execu.comshare.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.0 i586) J. T. Judge wrote: > > This is a normal startup problem ... check the INN faq. > > Try running the 'makehistory' command to build your history file > (and history.pag and .dir files). I vaguely remember having to > stick an article in place somewhere under /var/spool/news > (just to have an article) ... then doing makehistory. In that > manner, the history file would have an article to put in it's > database :) > > - joe > Thanx a lot. My support contract came through (beaurcracy's a b*tch sometimes). And I called BSDI and they told me which file to grab, and it essentially told me to make two hard links to other files,(which was conviently not in the INN setup in the Lizard books), and boom it works great. Thanx alot for the reply. Patrick S. Roberts (NTT) Internet Consultant