-----Original Message----- From: tschweikle@FIDUCIA.de [mailto:tschweikle@FIDUCIA.de] >additional: there is no log output. NOTHING! How can I turn some really >simple maybe stupid debugging messages on like: > >xyz: started >xyz: initializing socket on 192.168.x.x, port 1111 >xyz: connecting server 192.168.y.y, port 1111 >xyz: connection established >xyz: get ... > >and so on? > >Where are the options? i stumbled on the same problem, and the solution is pretty simple: you have to configure _both_ nntpcached and your syslogd to get logs rolling.... something like this: in nntpcache.config: logFromClient yes logToClient yes logFromServer yes logToServer yes logListMerge yes logListMergeCorrelation yes logNocem yes logDebug yes logInfo yes logWarnings yes logErrors yes in /etc/syslogd.conf: news.=notice /var/log/news/notice.log news.=warning /var/log/news/warning.log news.=err /var/log/news/error.log news.=crit /var/log/news/critical.log news.=alert /var/log/news/alert.log news.=emerg /var/log/news/emerg.log obviously this setup produces massive amounts of logs, once your system is up and running you'll want to set at least logToClient, logFromServer, logDebug and logInfo to "no". cheers, Alex ______________________________________________________ Alessandro Chiolo <alessandro.chiolo@galactica.it> ______________________________________________________ Galactica S.p.A. Information Technology Group - Area Networking Via Tonale, 26 - 20125 Milano - Tel. 02-67620.215 ______________________________________________________ I'm Winston Wolf. I Solve Problems. ______________________________________________________