no groups listed

[Richard Klingler]

Hi Rich

> > When I try to connect with a newsreader I don't see
> > any groups listed at all.
> > 
> > Any tips where I have to look for faults?
>
>What does news.notice say?  Did you configure readers.conf to allow access?


Here is some output of news.notice:

Jan  7 22:25:35 sunbox innfeed[454]: news.eunet.ch checkpoint seconds 1800 offered 200 accepted 0 refused 200 rejected 0 missing 0 accsize 0 rejsize 0 spooled 0 on_close 0 unspooled 0 deferred 0/0.0 requeued 0 queue 0.0/200:100,0,0,0,0,0
Jan  7 22:31:02 sunbox innfeed[454]: ME articles active 0 bytes 0
Jan  7 22:31:02 sunbox innfeed[454]: ME articles total 51 bytes 0
Jan  7 22:33:02 sunbox innd: news.eunet.ch:17 checkpoint seconds 5577 accepted 533 refused 0 rejected 867 duplicate 0 accepted size 185223360 duplicate size 0
Jan  7 22:35:35 sunbox innfeed[454]: news.eunet.ch checkpoint seconds 2400 offered 249 accepted 0 refused 249 rejected 0 missing 0 accsize 0 rejsize 0 spooled 0 on_close 0 unspooled 0 deferred 0/0.0 requeued 0 queue 0.0/200:100,0,0,0,0,0


>
>You can connect to the nntp port and try the commands the newsreader
>users and see what is going wrong.  e.g.
>
>telnet localhost 119
>mode reader
>group news.software.nntp
>
>   and see if you get the active line for the group here.  You can also do


I can telnet to the newsserver but I only get:

200 sunbox.klingler.ch InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.0 ready (posting ok).
group alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
411 No such group alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
list active
215 Newsgroups in form "group high low flags".
.


I see them only when I telnet on the news server locally:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 sunbox.klingler.ch InterNetNews server INN 2.3.0 ready
list active
215
control 0000000000 0000000001 y
junk 0000000000 0000000001 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 0005631821 0005571144 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1970s 0001262704 0001246503 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1980s 0001185392 0001167975 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1990s 0001771146 0001757145 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.alternative-rock 0000024589 0000023682 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classic-rock 0000078242 0000075055 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.comedy 0000330239 0000316288 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd 0000959731 0000919175 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.jazz 0000968681 0000958636 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.pop 0000015474 0000014520 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rock 0000057347 0000056041 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rock.full-album 0000078754 0000063746 y
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.spoken-word 0000612424 0000601698 y
.


>
>list active
>
>   and see if the active file pops out.


any ideas?

I am bloody new to this
thx in advance
Rick