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Ed Sinamark (efs@summa4.mv.com) wrote:
> The Sysadmin that setup our Usenet system with nn left a while ago and
> now we are rotating the sysadmin duties among the desing engineers.  The
> problem is that nn will no longer run and no one has any idea on how to
> restart it.  The problem is that when you run nn it say:

> nnmaster has not updated database in xxx hours
I`ve got the same problem at my site.
I`m running nn 6.4.18 on a HP9000/835 hpux 8.0
nnmaster is suid/sgrp news, news owns everything, write access to
all involved directories. My Log file contains :

M: Jan  8 09:50 (M): Master started -r10 -e0 -E1
M: Jan  8 09:51 (M): Database validation completed
N: Jan  8 09:52 (M): Lost connection to server taxus.uib.no: No such file or directory
C: Jan  8 09:52 (M): Collect: 1 art, 1 gr, 1 s
N: Jan  8 10:02 (M): Lost connection to server taxus.uib.no: No such file or directory
C: Jan  8 10:02 (M): Collect: 19 art, 16 gr, 8 s
N: Jan  8 10:02 (M): Lost connection to server taxus.uib.no: No such file or directory
A: Jan  8 10:05 (kenneth): SEND R comp.newprod   0
A: Jan  8 10:05 (M): RECV R comp.newprod   0 (kenneth Jan  8 10:05)
N: Jan  8 10:05 (M): Lost connection to server taxus.uib.no: No such file or directory

> We are receiving news and email so thats not the problem.  I have looked
> through the man pages on nn and it mentions nnmaster(8) but there is
> no man page on nnmaster and there is no executable nnmaster in the same
> directory as the nn executable.  If anyone could give me an idea as to 
> how to get nn started back up it would be greatly appreciated.  I am
> using TIN right now and I don't really like it.  And there are other
> non computer people who have just figured out how to run nn, starting them
> off again with tin would not be fun.  

Ed:,
nnmaster is not supposed to live in the same directory as the user part
of the nn distribution. It would be in the nn $LIB directory by default.
nn gurus, please correct me if I`m wrong.
I start nnmaster with options -l -r -C
(-l = unlock if locked, -r = poll every (default) 10 minutes,
 -C = concistence check of the database)

I assume you would find out where nnmaster lives by searching /etc/rc,
or doing a `find / -name nnmaster -print`.

> Thanks in advance


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Thanks, too,
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Kenneth Fosse, kenneth@bih.no
Network Manager @ Bergen College of Engineering, Bergen, Norway
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