Thank you to everyone who responded. One person even sent his config-files for suck and inn. That helped me to get suck going.
After experimenting I decided to follow the advice on this list to try out leafnode. It is easy to install and configure and at the moment I use it in combination with tin. I tried out trn, but I prefer tin. I also discovered that inn, after it was purged through dpkg, left some traces in my syslog.conf file that lead to the following messages in my /var/adm/messages file : Nov 3 06:56:31 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Nov 3 06:56:32 Johann kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 3 06:56:32 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Nov 3 06:56:32 Johann syslogd: select: Bad file number Nov 3 06:57:03 Johann last message repeated 20605 times Nov 3 06:58:04 Johann last message repeated 35092 times etc. After removing inn's references to news-related files in syslog.conf, my syslogd worked fine. I have great respect for the people in the debian-user's list who are so willing to help and put in some effort to help beginners like me. Thank you very much. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-461310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
