innd not starting

[Mirek Luc]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 gdeepak at in.ibm.com wrote:

> the message as follows is coming
> Starting innd.
> Scheduled start of /usr/local/news/bin/innwatch.
> ie innd is not started...
> if i give again rc.news
> Starting innd.
> Scheduled start of /usr/local/news/bin/innwatch.
> ie innwatch is again starting without killing the older one...
You should run "rc.news stop" and then "rc.news". Or simply as news user
/usr/local/news/bin/inndstart.

> what should i do now to continue with the testing...ie get the innd
> started..
Check /etc/syslog.conf:
news.crit	/news/log/news.crit
news.err	/news/log/news.err
news.notice	/news/log/news.notice

And see /usr/local/news/log/news.crit of course.

-Mirek