Hello, compiles ok, but: it gets active, active.times and newsgroups from the server, but never writes them to disc. The last message in the log is: Sep 25 12:21:44 poptest nntpcached-update[1875]: update daemon finished (after "merging 'newsgroups' ...", etc.) But the cache directory still only contains: -rw-r--r-- 1 nntpc nntpc 0 Sep 25 12:19 cache.history -rw-r--r-- 1 nntpc nntpc 61 Sep 25 12:19 cache.history.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 nntpc nntpc 0 Sep 25 12:19 cache.history.pag drwxr-xr-x 2 nntpc nntpc 512 Sep 25 12:19 newsserver.dergel.de -rw-r--r-- 1 nntpc nntpc 5 Sep 25 12:21 nntpcache.pid.DEFAULT:119 -rw-r--r-- 1 nntpc nntpc 392 Sep 25 12:20 nntpcache.stats In newsserver.dergel.de I see: -rw-r--r-- 1 nntpc nntpc 49 Sep 25 12:21 overview.fmt I tried to make this directory group writable (775), nntpcache creates it with (755), but with the same result. After this it is impossible to connect to nntpcache: nntpc@poptest<8>: telnet 0 119 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. nothing further happens... Ciao! /Frank -- EUnet Deutschland GmbH CBR600F Voice: +49 231 972 2222 Emil-Figge-Str. 80 rrr#7 Faxmachine: +49 231 972 1111 D-44227 Dortmund E-Mail: Frank.Luthe@Germany.EU.net