Thank you all for the answers.
My original post:
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Hi everyone,
Please Help, we have been getting readnews for a few months now and we
continually get the following each time news is downloaded to us:
relaynews <`bad/695502670.Z' failed, status 16 (see errlog)
errlog has:
relaynews: no junk group
I have the two nutshell books and can't find any help there. I get about 50 of
these each time. I did grab one of these at one time and ran unpack on it with
no errors.
System is a Sparc 2, 4.1.1 OS.
I have checked inodes and disk space, and both are OK.
Any help or ideas on where/what to look for/at would be appreciated.
Thankyou,
Tim Miller, timm@clarify.com, 408-428-2005
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All of them lead to what I thought it was, but just couldn't find the right way
to get that 'junk' newsgroup working. I received several answers, all of which
boiled down to the following:
You need to create a "junk" newsgroup -- this is where news puts "junk"
articles, i.e., articles which belong in a newsgroup which does not
exist on your system. (You should expire "junk" frequently; also,
occasionally look at the "junk" articles to see what newsgroups are
missing from your system -- you may want to create them -- then again,
you may not!)
If running Cnews, you can do:
su news -c "/usr/lib/newsbin/maint/addgroup junk y"
or, to do it manually, just create a directory:
mkdir /usr/spool/news/junk
chown news.news /usr/spool/news/junk
and add a line to your /usr/lib/news/active file:
junk 0000000000 0000000000 y
I **THINK** that's all there is to it.
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I used the command:
su news -c "/usr/lib/newsbin/maint/addgroup junk y"
Thanks again to all that answered. Now I can tell the people we get our news
from what the problem was.
Tim...
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