No articles are seen through the news clients

Hirantha Wijayawardena hirantha at vcs.informatics.lk
Wed Feb 28 03:36:17 EST 2007 

Hi,
I'm trying to setup INN for last couple of days, still not seeing a posted
article on Thunderbird/Outlook Express. I'm on Redhat ES 4 with inn-2.3.5
rpm installations. I am newbie to the news and INN.
What I wanted is - simple internal news server which all users could
post/read using thunderbird/outlook express.

Here are my config files;
inn.conf:

mta:                    /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem %s
ovmethod:               tradindexed
pathhost:               informatics.lk
pathnews:               /usr/lib/news
..
spoolfirst: false
mailcmd:                /usr/lib/news/bin/innmail
server:			localhost
..
patharchive:            /var/spool/news/archive
patharticles:           /var/spool/news/articles
pathbin:                /usr/lib/news/bin
pathcontrol:            /usr/lib/news/bin/control
pathdb:                 /var/lib/news
pathetc:                /etc/news
pathfilter:             /usr/lib/news/bin/filter
pathhttp:               /var/log/news
pathincoming:           /var/spool/news/incoming
pathlog:                /var/log/news
pathoutgoing:           /var/spool/news/outgoing
pathoverview:           /var/spool/news/overview
pathrun:                /var/run/news
pathspool:              /var/spool/news
pathtmp:                /var/lib/news/tmp

newsfeeds:
#ME:!*/!control,!junk,!local,!lists::

# innfeed funnel master.
innfeed!\
        :!*\
        :Tc,Wnm*:/usr/lib/news/bin/startinnfeed

controlchan!\
        :!*,control,control.*,!control.cancel\
        :Tc,Wnsm:/usr/lib/news/bin/controlchan

readers.conf:
auth "local_ips" {
    hosts: "*"
    default: "<user>"
    default-domain: "informatics.lk"
}
access "local_ips" {
    users: "*@informatics.lk"
    newsgroups: "*,!control*,!junk"
    access: "Read Post"
}

incoming.conf:
streaming:              true   # streaming allowed by default
max-connections:        8      # per feed

peer ME {
  hostname:         "localhost, 127.0.0.1, rhel4.informatics.lk"
}

ls -al /var/spool/news/

drwxr-xr-x  2 news news 4096 Dec  7  2004 archive
drwxr-xr-x  2 news news 4096 Dec  7  2004 articles
drwxrwxr-x  3 news news 4096 Feb 27 16:05 incoming
drwxr-xr-x  2 news news 4096 Feb 27 21:04 innfeed
drwxr-xr-x  2 news news 4096 Dec  7  2004 outgoing
drwxr-xr-x  3 news news 4096 Feb 27 12:32 overview
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  106 Feb 23 16:41 tradspool.map

storage.conf:

method tradspool {
        newsgroups: *
        class: 0
}


I checked with inncheck and there are no errors on the config files. While
I'm posting article from the news client, I can see the post has received by
the server.

news.notice:
Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 connect
Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 post ok
<es11i0$v5m$1 at rhel4.informatics.lk>
Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 posts received 1
rejected 0
Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 times user 0.019 system
0.026 elapsed 0.285


And I can see mail is getting loop on the sendmail after I setup
/etc/aliases:
news:          "|/usr/lib/news/bin/mailpost -d localhost local.test"


/var/log/mailllog:

Feb 27 21:02:53 rhel4 sendmail[8922]: l1RFWrqs008922:
from=<mail at rhel4.informatics.lk>, size=13882, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200702271532.l1RFWqhe008921 at rhel4.informatics.lk>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=rhel4.informatics.lk [127.0.0.1]
Feb 27 21:02:53 rhel4 sendmail[8921]: l1RFWqhe008921: to=news, ctladdr=mail
(8/12), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=43579,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (l1RFWrqs008922 Message
accepted for delivery)
Feb 27 21:02:53 rhel4 sendmail[8917]: l1RFWpnG008916:
to="|/usr/lib/news/bin/mailpost -d localhost local.test",
ctladdr=<news at rhel4.informatics.lk> (8/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02,
mailer=prog, pri=43309, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

Feb 27 21:02:53 rhel4 sendmail[8922]: l1RFWrqs008922:
from=<mail at rhel4.informatics.lk>, size=13882, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200702271532.l1RFWqhe008921 at rhel4.informatics.lk>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=rhel4.informatics.lk [127.0.0.1]
Feb 27 21:02:53 rhel4 sendmail[8921]: l1RFWqhe008921: to=news, ctladdr=mail
(8/12), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=43579,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (l1RFWrqs008922 Message
accepted for delivery)
Feb 27 21:02:53 rhel4 sendmail[8917]: l1RFWpnG008916:
to="|/usr/lib/news/bin/mailpost -d localhost local.test",
ctladdr=<news at rhel4.informatics.lk> (8/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02,
mailer=prog, pri=43309, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

I tried rnews -v -U then 
news.notice:
Feb 27 21:07:01 rhel4 rnews: cant open_remote Success

There are messages are sitting in the /var/spool/news/incoming directory

ls -al /var/spool/news/incoming/

-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  638 Feb 27 15:07 45e3fbf1PwCa7F
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  646 Feb 27 16:05 45e40980G8NaYG
drwxrwxr-x  2 news news 4096 Feb 27 12:32 bad

Here are my telnet sessions:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
200 .. InterNetNews server INN 2.3.5 ready
mode reader
200 InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.5 ready (posting ok).
list
215 Newsgroups in form "group high low flags".
local.test 0000000000 0000000001 y
.
group local.test
211 0 0 0 local.test
xover
224 0 fields follow
.

I don't see any errors on the log except:

/var/log/news/news.err:
Feb 27 12:34:17 rhel4 innd: SERVER perl filter not defined
Feb 27 15:05:22 rhel4 innd: SERVER perl filter not defined
Feb 27 15:07:43 rhel4 innd: SERVER perl filter not defined

And mail loop.

I don't see any messages through the client. Am I missing something.. Can
some one point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

- Hirantha




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