2.4.0b3 and higher are just plain broke on certain platforms, and for whatever reason, nobody cares enough to fix it. if you run with nntpcached -n, you may see better results. Me personally? I'm installing diablo in it's caching mode to see if it will work better. The last nntpcache that worked OK for me in testing was b2. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Erwin Burgstaller wrote: > > > I did download nntpcache V2.4.0b3 and V2.4.0b4. When I install and start > the daemon it doesn't open port 119 with any of that both releases. I use > RedHat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14-12. > > It seems to be not a compatibilty problem since if I remove > /usr/local/var/nntpcache/* (except file VERSION) before start it's the > same. > > I also did a reboot of the box (last hope) but naturally it didn't change > anything. > > When I re-install V2.4.0b2 it works without any changes in the > configuration, which is: > > bindAddr DEFAULT:119 > > BTW: The http-Port (httpBindAddr DEFAULT:9119) is always working. > > And I can't see any error message in syslog files or in the > html-status-page. > > process list was this (after update has finished properly): > > # ps ax |grep nntpcache > 2870 ? S 0:00 nntpcache: waiting for connections > 2871 ? S 0:00 nntpcache: watch: ready > > What is "watch" for? Running release V2.4.0b2 doesn't show that process. > > > Erwin > >
