What is causing this error ...

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sep 12, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Wilson, Sue EIS-NWD wrote:

> We just started a backup process ...

I had a really hard time making sense of your message.  But I'll do the 
best I can.


> cat: cannot open /usr/local/news/run/LOCK.innwatch
> cat: cannot open /usr/local/news/run/LOCK.innwatch

I'm not sure this is the root of your problem.  I would fix other 
things (see below) and come back to this if it still occurs then.


> Sep  8 08:24:40 nntp innd: [ID 941591 news.crit] SERVER cant listen 
> RCreader
> Socket operation on non-socket

Something is definitely wrong here.  It would help if you could show 
exactly what commands you're using.  Also, before you start INN up 
again, are you sure no INN process are still running?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org