At 14:05 28.02.2000 -0800, you wrote: >I just joined the mailing list, so I may have read some previous messages >incorrectly. > >If people have been seeing the following error when starting nntpcache, >check your "nntpcache.servers" file. If there is a "/*" near the top, remove >it and it should start correctly. It looks like the problem originated in >the "nntpcache.servers-dist" file. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >NNTPCache-2.4.0b3 >Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> >Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Australian National Cognitive Facility >See the files "COPYING", "FAQ", "LICENSING" and >http://www.nntpcache.org/ for copyright details >cwd now /usr/local/etc/nntpcache/etc/nntpcache >servers file nntpcache.servers contains no servers! >uname: illegal option -- p >usage: uname [-amnrsvil] [-S nodename] >mail: illegal option -- s >usage: mail [+] [-epqr] [-f file] > mail [-dt] persons >clean shutdown Hmm, not really. Mine has no problem with/out "/*". it simply fails with Feb 29 11:15:26 hpwp3 syslog: nntpcache.c:1463 failed assertion: task_desc[nc_last] == NULL Feb 29 11:15:31 hpwp3 syslog: clean shutdown with error -1. dumping core for debug analysis Gruß kra1