ME source lost . Exiting

[Boryan Yotov]

This error means that no articles are fed from your
Primary to the Replacement server. Actually a
connection is established but the Replacement server
receives EOF once it tries to receive articles.

You have to check the newsfeeds configuration file on
the Primary side and and/or incoming.conf on the
replacment side.

Maybe no newsgroups are defined from which articles
to be retrieved (in the Primary server's newsfeed
file).

Look carefully at both files :)

Regards,
Boryan Yotov

J.N.Deakin at shu.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>  I've inherited the news service at our university, and am trying to bring up a replacement 
> server. The paths are different,but I think I've corrected those. The major difference 
> between the old and new servers is that the old machine runs Solaris, while the second 
> runs RedHat Linux.
>  The service comes up aright, and I can telnet the appropriate ports, then when our 
> newsfeed connects it dies with the following message in news.notice
> 
> Aug  5 11:20:54 fig innd: SERVER starting
> Aug  5 11:46:49 fig innd: server6.netnews.ja.net connected 21 streaming allowed
> Aug  5 11:46:49 fig innd: server6.netnews.ja.net:21 NCmode "mode stream" received
> Aug  5 11:46:49 fig innfeed[1024]: ME source lost . Exiting
> Aug  5 11:46:49 fig innfeed[1024]: ME finishing at Tue Aug  5 11:46:49 2003
> 
> The only place I see 'ME' defined is in incoming.conf, and the files
>  look ok to me. Am I looking in the right place? 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>    Jim Deakin
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