can't start inn

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, UltraMax wrote:

> I have done all needed preparations for inn to start. I login as a "news" user. And then I do
> /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news
> I see following:
> Starting innd.
> Scheduled start of /usr/local/news/bin/innwatch.
> 
> But I cannot connect to my server. And I see that port 119 is not accepting connections. When I try to
> /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news stop
> I see
> No innd.pid file; did server die?
> Can't send "shutdown" command (sendto failure) No such file or directory.

Well, did you look in the log files?  ~news/log/news.{crit,err,notice}





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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
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