innreport not fully working

[info at caladan.net]

On 11 Oct 00, at 13:48, Russ Allbery wrote:

> 
> info <info at caladan.net> writes:
> 
> > We have a cron job setup to run each night from root, as follows : 
> 
> > 30 02 * * * /usr/local/news/bin/innreport -
> > nohtml-unknown -f /usr/local/news/etc 
> > /innreport.conf /usr/local/news/log/news
> 
> > It seems to work - pretty much, apart from the html output - on the
> > initial screen the two graphs show zero articles, also the table
> > underneath show zero articles, but if you go into one of the
> > reports, all seems fine.
> 
> You need to parse news.notice as well; that's what it uses to generate
> a lot of the volume information.  I'd recommend using a separate
> crontab for the news user rather than doing it from root's crontab,
> but if you do want to do it from root's crontab, you need to su to
> news before running the command just on general principals.

Hmmm, news.notice is always empty, as is news.err and 
news.crit, the only logfiles to have entries are 'news', 
'unwanted.log', 'expire.log' and 'nntpsend.log' 

I have changed roots cronjob to do 'su news -c' beforehand, but it 
makes no difference, still no articles ?!?! 

Regards,
Chris