inn died can someone help?

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Jun 8 15:13:03 UTC 2004


Adam Lipson wrote:
> INN has stopped working.  Here are the symptoms that I can see from
> looking in the log files, and while they say what is wrong I am not sure
> how to fix this.  Can anyone help?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> [root at listserver bin]# service innd status
> innd dead but subsys locked
>  
> Jun  5 10:54:47 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
> Permission denied
> Jun  5 11:00:37 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
> Permission denied
> Jun  6 01:23:40 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
> Permission denied
> Jun  6 01:30:25 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
> Permission denied
> Jun  6 01:35:32 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
> Permission denied
> Jun  6 01:35:48 listserver last message repeated 2 times  
> 
Possible causes:

   ownership of history wrong (installed as root?)
   history missing (did you init?)
   using a broken inn build in a vendor Linux package (build from source)

If that doesn't help send more info!

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    -bill davidsen (davidsen at tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me


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