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From: set...@home.sethhurst.com (hurst)
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Subject: running INN from source in non standard directory
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:58:10 -0400
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by: hurst - Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:58 UTC

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by: Julien ÉLIE - Fri, 2 Sep 2022 05:21 UTC

Hi Seth,

> So I am running INN from a directory /news The prefix for the install is
> /news. When ever I try to start the server or reload it I get a error
> saying. No INN.pid file did server die? How would I start or run this
> from a directory wear everything is self contained in a single directory?

Does the /news/run directory exist?

Is /news/run the value of the pathrun parameter in inn.conf?

Are the rights correctly set for allowing the news user and the news
group to write to /news/run?

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Julien ÉLIE

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Subject	Author
running INN from source in non standard directory	hurst
Re: running INN from source in non standard directory	Julien ÉLIE