Re: Problems with ifnews

Pablo Saratxaga (srtxg@chanae.stben.be)
Sun, 25 May 1997 21:51:37 +0200 (MET DST)

Kaixo !

> Once again it didn't accept any articles, but did print the following in
> the log:
>
> start ifnews ver 2.8e of Thu Mar 14 01:45:26 1996, verbose 0x00003fff
> adding default group "fido.*" (dist world)
> packets will go to /tmp/ifmail

> Any ideas from this?

Yes. You need to define each group you want to gate:

start ifnews ver 2.10-tx8.3beta4 of Thu May 22 17:15:25 1997, verbose 0x00003fff
unable to open area file /etc/ifmail/Areas.f1.n1
errno=2 : No such file or directory
unable to open area file /etc/ifmail/Areas.f1
errno=2 : No such file or directory
adding area "HUB2200" for ng "local.hub2200" (dist (null))
adding area "NEW2219" for ng "local.new2219" (dist (null))
adding area "2602NEWS" for ng "local.new2602" (dist (null))
adding area "HUB4000" for ng "local.hub4000" (dist (null))
adding area "FLOPPY" for ng "local.new850_1" (dist (null))
adding area "TEST" for ng "fido.uy.test" (dist (null))
adding area "LOCAL.TEST" for ng "local.test" (dist (null))
adding area "LOCAL.CARIBOU" for ng "local.caribou" (dist (null))
adding area "293_NET" for ng "n293.sysops" (dist fido)
adding area "293_FILES" for ng "n293.files" (dist fido)

[etc, lots of them, one for each area I want to carry]

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A bientôt, Pablo Saratxaga

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