inn refusing articles

[Alex Vorobiev]

i apologize if this has been addressed on the list.  i did search through
the archives, and could not find anything relevant.

on the new server i've got:
	redhat 7.0, latest RPM updates
	inn 2.3.1-2

	history database initialized
	one group added via 'ctlinnd newgroup'

i am trying to feed all articles from my old server to the new one

i created a list of articles as per section 3.9 at
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html.  from that list i extracted
messages for the group i created on the new server.  then i used 'innxmit
-h server outgoing.file'

on the new server my news.notice reports that all articles are being
refused:

Aug 24 12:55:18 support1 innd: old-news-server:25 closed seconds 0 accepted
0 refused 47 rejected 0 duplicate 0 accepted size 0 duplicate size 0

the news file has no messages as to why the articles are being refused.
in fact, the news log is not being updated at all.  the permissions seem
to be ok, the log files are user and group news writable.

since some or all articles may be expired, i tried 'ctlinn param c 0' as
well as actually changing the artcutoff in inn.conf, but to no avail.

the articles are still being refused, with no explanation or error message.

any help would be appreciated.

--sasha, sasha at mathforum.com