Hey,

I've just downloaded and installed inn-2.3.3, after having problems with
2.2.2. It seems though, that this hasn't helped the problem. 

Basically, when I run rc.news, it seems to hang, after scheduling the
start of innwatch. inndstart does nothing - when I run it it completes
but doesn't start innd. innd does the same -- seems to complete but
doesn't start the daemon.

This was all working until I tried to create a new group. I created the
directory in /services/news/spool (/services/news is the install path of
inn), edited the active file etc. When I tried to restart the daemon, it
wouldn't start. I was hacking at it for about 3 hours a couple of nights
ago (when we still ran 2.2.2) and it eventually started, but constantly
corrupted the active file. I stopped it again last night and it hasn't
started since. Today I installed 2.3.3 and I'm seeing the same problems.

Any help you can give me on these problems would be greatly appreciated.
I've tried an strace on both innd and inndstart and they both seem to
exit(1) after a SIGPIPE, if that helps at all. 

I've attached our inn.conf in case there's anything meaningful there
aswell.

Cheers.

-- 
Chat ya later,

John.
--
BOFH excuse #1: clock speed


-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --

##  $Revision: 1.24.2.2 $
##  inn.conf -- inn configuration data
##  Format:
##	<parameter>:<whitespace><value>
##
##  See the inn.conf(5) man page for a full description of each
##  of these options
##
##  Blank values are allowed for certain parameters
## ---------------------------------
# All parameters must exist
#
organization:		The Skynet Project
server:			hal.csn.ul.ie
pathhost:		news.csn.ul.ie
# moderatormailer:
domain:			csn.ul.ie
fromhost:		news.csn.ul.ie
pathalias:
complaints:
mta:			/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi %s
mailcmd:		/services/news/bin/innmail
checkincludedtext:	false
maxforks:		10
maxartsize:		1000000
nicekids:		4
nicenewnews:		0
verifycancels:		false
logcancelcomm:		false
wanttrash:		false
remembertrash:		true
linecountfuzz:		0
peertimeout:		3600
clienttimeout:		600
allownewnews:		true
localmaxartsize:	1000000
logartsize:		true
logipaddr:		true
logsitename:		true
maxconnections:		50
artcutoff:		14
icdsynccount:		10
hiscachesize:		0
readertrack:		false
strippostcc:		false
status:			0
timer:			300
readerswhenstopped:	false
noreader:		false
extendeddbz:		false
nnrpdoverstats:		false
storeonxref:		true
nnrpdcheckart:		true
storemsgid:		true
usecontrolchan:		false
mergetogroups:		false
backoffauth:		false
backoffdb:		/services/news/db/backoff
backoffpostfast:	0L
backoffpostslow:	1L
backofftrigger:		10000L
mimeversion:
mimecontenttype:
mimeencoding:
refusecybercancels:	false
activedenable:		false
activedupdate:		30
activedport:		1119
nnrpperlauth:		false
#
# 
# These options are unlikely to need changing in most situations
#
chaninacttime:		600
chanretrytime:		300
pauseretrytime:		300
nntplinklog:		false
nntpactsync:		200
badiocount:		5
blockbackoff:		120
#
# ---------------------------------
# Changing these options can have an effect on the way articles are
# stored and may require recreating the spool and/or database files
#
wireformat:		false
xrefslave:		false
nnrpdposthost:
nnrpdpostport:		119
spoolfirst:		false
writelinks:		true
storageapi:		false
articlemmap:		false
overviewmmap:		true
bindaddress:		all
sourceaddress:		any
port:			119
#
## Keywords-in-overview options
## Enabling this without stopping innd and deleting the existing overview
## database and adding  will probably confuse a lot of things. You must 
## have compiled this support in too.
#
keywords:		false
keylimit:		512
keyartlimit:		100000
keymaxwords:		250
#
# Other options
innflags:
doinnwatch:		true
innwatchsleeptime:	600
pgpverify:		false
controlfailnotice:	false
logcycles:		3
innwatchpauseload:	1500
innwatchhiload:		2000
innwatchloload:		1000
innwatchspoolspace:	8000
innwatchbatchspace:	800
innwatchlibspace:	25000
innwatchspoolnodes:	200
docnfsstat:		false
#
# ---------------------------------
# Paths to various aspects of the news system
#
pathnews:		/services/news
pathbin:		/services/news/bin
pathfilter:		/services/news/bin/filter
pathcontrol:		/services/news/bin/control
pathdb:			/services/news/db
pathetc:		/services/news/etc
pathrun:		/services/news/run
pathlog:		/services/news/log
pathhttp:		/services/news/log
pathtmp:		/services/news/tmp
pathspool:		/services/news/spool
patharticles:		/services/news/spool/articles
pathoverview:		/services/news/spool/overview
pathoutgoing:		/services/news/spool/outgoing
pathincoming:		/services/news/spool/incoming
patharchive:		/services/news/spool/archive
pathuniover:		/services/news/spool/uniover
overviewname:		.overview