Glyn Millington wrote: > /var/log/news says things like > > Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article > /var/spool/news/message.id/658/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No such file or directory > Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: Cannot create directory > /var/spool/news/message.id/077: No such file or directory > Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article > /var/spool/news/message.id/077/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No such file or directory > Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: Cannot create directory > /var/spool/news/message.id/092: No such file or directory > Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article > /var/spool/news/message.id/092/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No such file or directory > > > Except that the directory message.id DOES exist!
You need about a thousand directories under message.id/ also. On my system I've got message.id/000/ through message.id/999/. You may just want to purge and then reinstall leafnode. That's the easiest way to get a proper /var/spool/news for leafnode (what about news/leaf.node/ ? news/out.going/ ? etc).