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localhost not accepted | I run my server on a loopback address using 127.0.0.1 with a hostname of localhost. Changi complains that this is not a FQDN, so I am using an alias of localhost.net at the moment. Is there any way it can be made to accept localhost? |
Generally speaking, using localhost as a hostname is a bad idea.
It should only be used for the local interface in addition to a
real hostname.
Among other settings, Changi needs a hostname for the pathline. As long as your site is the only one in the whole world named localhost, there's no problem. But any other site named localhost too will never see your articles and vice versa. Anyway, the problem is seen with some providers not providing a hostname, but it's currently not fixed how to solve this. Unless Changi isn't able to deal with it, try to select a hostname, which hopefully isn't used elsewhere and set CHANGIHOSTNAME to this name. |
active | My NEWS.WATERMARK, ACTIVE, and ACTIVE.TIMES files do not agree with each other. Is this correct? |
The active file should at least contain all groups from
the watermark file. It may contain more, especially:
control 0 1 n control.cancel 0 1 n control.newgroup 0 1 n control.rmgroup 0 1 n junk 0 1 nNever ever add junk to the watermark file, unless you want to get real junk. Under normal conditions you won't want and you won't be allowed to get the control groups either. active.times simply keeps a record of newly created groups on your system and may be used by the newsreader to detect them. Changi doesn't use this file for any other purpose than to send it to newsreaders upon request. |
Rereading configs | Is there any way to reread config files without reloading the server? | No, but some are reloaded automatically, if Changi detects a change in the modification date. This is true for all access control files, nntp_access, ctrl_access and user_access. But other files, like newsfeeds, are loaded during the startup phase only. |
New newsgroups | My setup of Changi never creates the *.cmd files for new newsgroups... |
Depends on the newsgroups you get. Changi will create / update
these files upon receiving a corresponding control message.
Such a message will be sent to comp.os.os2.* groups for example, if the hierarchy of comp.os.os2 is going to change. |
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