INN FAQ syslog message: ME internal no control and/or junk group

INN FAQ Part 3

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Subject: (3.5) syslog message: ME internal no control and/or junk group
You must have a newsgroup named "control" and a newsgroup named "junk" for innd to start. Since innd isn't running, you can edit the active file directly Add these lines: control 0000000000 0000000000 y junk 0000000000 0000000000 y -tal Also make sure that the directories in the spool either don't exist or are writable by the news user. ------------------------------ [Source: INN FAQ Part 3 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part3] [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:12 $ $Revision: 2.18 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]

Subject: (3.5) syslog message: ME internal no control and/or junk group

You must have a newsgroup named "control" and a newsgroup named
"junk" for innd to start. Since innd isn't running, you can edit
the active file directly

Add these lines:

control 0000000000 0000000000 y
junk 0000000000 0000000000 y

-tal

Also make sure that the directories in the spool either don't exist or
are writable by the news user.

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[Source: INN FAQ Part 3 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part3]
[Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:12 $ $Revision: 2.18 $]
[Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]