not seeing articles in news reader?

[Jeffrey M.Vinocur]

On Sep 20, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Jason wrote:

>> Well, you need overview in order for newsreaders to be able to display
>> a list of articles in a group.  Please read the INSTALL document to
>> learn how to configure your server.
> hrm. no mention of enableoverview in the INSTALL document. (using inn 
> 2.2.1)

I don't have the 2.2 source tree handy to check...

Oh.  Wait, did we even have alternative overview methods in 2.2.x?  Ok, 
I better check this.

Right.  Wow.  Ok, I apologize for confusing you before; you certainly 
don't need to have enableoverview and ovmethod, since those didn't 
exist way back then.  I guess they don't hurt anything, though.


> makehistory -O as news user and I got lots of
> Duplicate message-id "<009a01c496fe$6c3308c0$531210ca at 7Y2861014>" in 
> history text

Ok, this is to be expected if you ran makehistory without moving the 
existing history aside first.  No harm done, though.


> and I see nothing got populated in
> my /local/news/spool/overview/ dir

That's surprising, I guess.

Before we try to dig up any more knowledge on how to make old software 
work again, is there a particular reason you've chosen this version of 
INN?  I mean, I get the impression this is a new install from scratch, 
right?


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org