Config Qs

[Russ Allbery]

Michael Cook <mcook at dcranch.com> writes:

> I'm new to INN & this list. I downloaded and installed the INN 2.2.2
> package today on a Sun Ultra 2 running Solaris 2.6 (+recommended/y2k
> patches) with gcc 2.8.1 & perl 5.00502. The whole compilation went
> perfectly. I have used cnfs and 3 1GB cycbuffs (two for alt.binaries*
> and the other for everything else). I downloaded the 'active' and
> 'newsgroups' files from ISC. I then ran a "makehistory -i" and got the
> error "Can't initialize storage manager: one or more storage methods
> failed initialization" - I also tried a 'makehistory -o' (which was the
> instruction from the output of the compilation) - this produced the same
> error but made an empty history file. How should I proceed from here?

Look in your syslog; the error messages will be logged there.  There was
some sort of problem initializing the cycbuffs.

> Lastly, how does one go about getting feeds from others? I have one
> place that will feed me, but their groups are not even close to complete
> and would like to use another (or in addition to, if this is desired).

Posting to news.admin.misc is one reasonably good way.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>