503 NNTP server unavailable.

[Katsuhiro Kondou]

In article <0vog89isym.fsf at cs.uni-magdeburg.de>,
	Roland Jesse <jesse at prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> wrote;

} Hhhm, news.notice is empty. That's what "ls -ltr" in ~news/log says:
} % ls -ltr
:
} -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news           0 Mar 20 11:12 news.notice

Have you sent SIGHUP to syslogd after syslog.conf
is modified?

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

Error message will be logged to news.notice, if
there is syntax error, and there is no way other
than checking with your own eyes before nnrpd runs.
-- 
Katsuhiro Kondou