Debian bug report logs - #721
INN message scrolls

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>
Subject: INN message scrolls

Package: inn
Version: 1.4sec-7

The message displayed by INN's postinst scrolled of the screen and had
a spurious backslash (see transcript below).

Futhermore, INN *was* installed in /etc/rc.misc by default, though the
message implied it had not been enabled.

Perhaps a better approach would be to set up a simple local-only
configuration and to enable the server by default ?

Ian.

 Setting up inn ...

 Important note regarding your new INN installation:

 In order to operate INN and newsreading clients successfully you will
 *have* to create/edit at least the following files in /etc/news:
    inn.conf    hosts.nntp    newsfeeds    whoami      organization
 I'm sorry that I'm unable to do this for you.

 Additionally you will probably find that the settings described in
     server      expire.ctl    nnrp.access
 are unsuited to your site.  Please check them.

 This is a tricky business.  Please read /usr/doc/news/inn-readme
 for assistance and pointers to the general INN documentation.

 You will also have to obtain a recent list of newsgroups for your active
 file (/var/lib/news/active) and create a history file and dbz database.

 When you have done the configuration you should arrange for
 /etc/rc.d/rc.news to be called from /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  This is not done
 automatically as running an unconfigured news system is bad.  I have
 already installed the `news' user's crontab; the `source' copy can be found
 in /etc/news/crontab.

 NB: I see that you have not given the news spool, /var/spool/news, its own
 partition.  Doing so is strongly recommended; you may wish to consider
 repartitioning.

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