add new group
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Tue May 8 16:43:06 UTC 2007
Drew <usernumber1000 at yahoo.com> writes:
> I recently took over maintenance of an innd instance. I'm new to this.
> I created a new group w/
> ctlinnd newgroup toplevel.newgroup
> and restarted inn, but could not see it as a group in my news client. I
> did not see a dir created in /path/to/archives/dir/toplevel, that I see
> for other groups. Unsure why this was not created.
It's never created until the first message is posted to the group. This
part doesn't matter.
> readers.conf is allowing access, and I don't see anywhere in /etc/news
> where my previous groups are being defined or controlled.
> Have I missed a step here?
No. That's all you have to do. Chances are that your readers.conf isn't
actually allowing access even though you believe that it is. Can we see a
copy of it?
Also, be sure that you've refreshed your group list in the client. Some
don't pick up changes very quickly.
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