NNRPD fails in daemon mode

[bill davidsen]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203061223060.2129-100000 at marduk.litech.org>,
Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> wrote:
| On 6 Mar 2002, bill davidsen wrote:
| 
| > I guess my first mail didn't get out... I have a system running
| > 20011101-CURRENT which has been up and working for months. Suddenly
| > nnrpd running in daemon mode returns a null list to LIST ACTIVE and all
| > GROUP command fail. If the command is started from the command line it
| > works just fine.
| 
| The usual question:  what changed?

Definitely nothing. The machine is a server in a remote site. As long as
it sends me a daily I don't look at it for months. All of a sudden nnrpd
stopped working.

| (Other than that...hrm...how is your readers.conf set up?)

Follows, but of course it's the same no matter how I start nnrpd...
================================================================
auth "chain" {
    hosts: "192.168.240.*,192.168.241.*,207.115.58.*,207.115.59.*,207.115.54.*,207.115.63.*"
    key: <chain>
    default: <dsl>
    default-domain: "prodigy.net"
}

# limited chain from remote sites
auth "chain2" {
    hosts: "192.168.192.*,204.60.203.24, 151.164.30.48,151.164.60.156,151.164.30.44, 151.164.60.157, 151.164.30.42, 151.164.61.156, 206.141.192.32, 206.141.193.32,64.164.98.6, 64.164.98.7, 64.164.98.29"
    key: <chain2>
    default: <chain2>
    default-domain: "prodigy.net"
}

#   chain connection
access "chain" {
    users: "<dsl>@prodigy.net"
    key: "<chain>"
    newsgroups: "*"
    access: "Read Post"
}

#   limited chain connection
access "chain2" {
    users: "<chain2>@prodigy.net"
    key: "<chain2>"
    newsgroups: "*,!alt.bin*.cd*,!alt.bin*dvi*"
    access: "Read Post"
}

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.