No Newsgroups by the LIST command

[Patrick Schreurs]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Alex Huth wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> I've tried to setup inn in it's stable version on freebsd. The active file is
> setup correct and i've done "makedbz -i" etc.
>
> When i connect with a news client no Newsgroup appear. In the file newsgroups
> there are only the standard groups like junk, etc.
>
> The TCP-trace shows the LIST-Command with no newsgroups.
>
> What have i missed to do ?

Download an active file from somewhere. For example:
ftp.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/

If you already did that, check the paths in inn.conf.

Patrick Schreurs
Support.Net / News-Service.com