503 NNTP server unavailable.

[Roland Jesse]

Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou at nec.co.jp> writes:

> That message probably comes from nnrpd and that
> shows your readers.conf has syntax error.  The
> error should be also showed in news.notice.

Hhhm, news.notice is empty. That's what "ls -ltr" in ~news/log says:
% ls -ltr
total 10286
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Dec 14 11:01 innfeed.log
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Dec 16 03:01 expire.lastindex
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news        1507 Dec 16 19:02 inn.status
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news      335607 Mar 20 04:30 expire.lastlowmark
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 08:08 innfeed.status
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 news.crit
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 errlog
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 news.notice
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 news.err
-rw-rw----   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 nntpsend.log
-rw-rw----   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 badcontrol.log
-rw-rw----   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 badpgp.log
-rw-rw----   1 news     news         381 Mar 20 11:13 unwanted.log
drwxrwxr-x   2 news     news        1024 Mar 20 11:14 OLD
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:14 expire.rm
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news         478 Mar 20 12:38 expire.log
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news        1684 Mar 20 16:00 inn_status.html
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news     4904446 Mar 20 16:01 news

Is there any way to do a syntax check on readers.conf?

        Roland