INN FAQ Part 3/9: Reasons why INN isn't starting

• Introduction
• Table Of Contents for Part 3/9
• (3.1) What runs as what?
• (3.2) Why does innd just exit right away with no message?
• (3.3) syslog message: inndstart: inndstart cant bind Address already in use
• (3.4) syslog message: ME internal no to group
• (3.5) syslog message: ME internal no control and/or junk group
• (3.6) syslog message: Can't setup communication (bind failure)
• (3.7) syslog message: ME bad_newsfeeds no feeding sites
• (3.8) syslog message: ME cant GetConfigValue
• (3.9) syslog message: ME cant accept RCreader
• (3.10) syslog message: ME cant ioctl(TIOCNOTTY) Invalid argument
• (3.11) syslog message: ME cant fork /some/tool Resource temporarily unavailable
• (3.12) /usr/local/etc/rc.news: (M-i)^P^L^A.Gd: not found
• (3.13) syslog message: ME cant dbminit /usr/local/news/history