hello,

If I'm not on the right forum, please let me know...

For some month I'm on the way of building a new usenet server with INN,
but family involvement don't give me all the time I would like, so it's
very slow.

I write down my results here

http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.ConfigurerINN

I managed such a server some years ago, but only for a private gateway
with a linux user group mailing list, with no feed

just now I hit an error message

ctlinnd: ovmethod must be set in inn.conf if enableoverview is true

I don't remember having seen this previously, and google says there are
are several options, but I didn't find what is the preferred one

this new server is aimed to share the fr* hierarchy

thanks
jdd

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Le 07/12/2021 à 15:34, jdd a écrit :

> just now I hit an error message
>
> ctlinnd: ovmethod must be set in inn.conf if enableoverview is true
>
> I don't remember having seen this previously, and google says there are
> are several options, but I didn't find what is the preferred one
>
> this new server is aimed to share the fr* hierarchy
>

I have seen

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/install.html#S7

I have a 2TB disk... no room problem
8 Gb ram
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2130 CPU @ 3.40GHz

thanks
jdd

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Bonjour Jean-Daniel,

> ctlinnd: ovmethod must be set in inn.conf if enableoverview is true
>
> I don't remember having seen this previously, and google says there are
> are several options, but I didn't find what is the preferred one

I would suggest tradindexed (or ovsqlite for INN 2.7.0 and later).

> http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.ConfigurerINN
INN is not a GNU NNTP server, just an NNTP server.

> this new server is aimed to share the fr* hierarchy

Great! :-)

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jdd <jdd@dodin.org> writes:

> just now I hit an error message

> ctlinnd: ovmethod must be set in inn.conf if enableoverview is true

> I don't remember having seen this previously, and google says there are
> are several options, but I didn't find what is the preferred one

tradindexed is the default and probably what you should use if you have no
special requirements.

I'm assuming from this error that you may not have started with the
inn.conf file in the samples directory, which has all of the mandatory
options filled in. You may want to consider starting with that file when
configuring a new server.

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Il 07/12/21 15:34, jdd ha scritto:
> ctlinnd: ovmethod must be set in inn.conf if enableoverview is true

you forgot to fill in the 'overmethod' parameter inside inn.conf
if you enable the overview, which is used to allow clients to read the
articles, you must also set an overview format