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In <Bz3rA9.61r@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> xcea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Chad Adams) writes:

>I am installing INN 1.2 on SunOS 4.1.3.  I am getting many of these
>error messages in /var/log/news/news.err:

>Dec 11 04:10:08 news innd: ME cant nonblock 16 Invalid argument
[...]

Sounds like you're using an NFS mounted partition.  Bzzzt.

From the next rev (please don't email me and ask for it) of my
unofficial INN FAQ:

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### What does this mean:
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### Dec  2 20:40:04 venus innd: ME cant nonblock 15 Operation not supported

Answer: (from paulr@umbc4.umbc.edu (Paul Riddle))

It turns out that this is happening because /usr/spool/news on the
machine running innd is an NFS-mounted filesystem, and innd is trying
to do an FIONBIO on my feed file, which is under /usr/spool/news/out.going.

(tal@warren.mentorg.com adds:)
All news transports (INN, C news, B news) want the spool partition to
be local.  Newsreader can read from an NFS mounted partition without
any problems but innd should only see local partitions.  NFS has a blantant
disreguard for many of the file semantics that are needed for a good news
implementation.  If you don't agree, please feel free to prove the authors
of B news, C news, TMNNN (?), and INN wrong.  Include source code.

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