With inn-2.4.3-6.fc6 and tradspool configured for all newsgroups in storage.conf, "ctlinnd newgroup whatever" creates the active file entry but doesn't create the spool directory. I'm pretty sure it used to create the spool directory correctly.
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Sorry for so long time response, I completely missed that bugzilla when got maintainance of inn... Do you still have those troubles with current inn (F9 or devel)? Do you know (at least approximate) version where it worked correctly? Thanks for answer.
I cannot test this with a newer version of INN, as the platform on which I am currently running INN is RHEL based rather than Fedora base. Please try it out yourself to see if it is still a problem.
Thanks, so no such troubles with RHEL-5 INN? Good to know ... Will try with F9/Rawhide INN ...
No, you misunderstand, it IS still a problem with RHEL.
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Julien ÉLIE from upstream wrote me email about that issue: "It is normal. The behaviour is to create the tradspool directory upon receiving the first article. No need to before. INN 2.4 and INN 2.5 behave this way. I do not know what happened before. Please note that there isn't any problem if the directory does not exist." Based on it, closing it NOTABUG, anyway thanks for report.