/usr/lib/news/bin/innstat line 39 is ( cd ${BATCH}; ls -Cs | tail +2 ) This is obsolete tail syntax, it should be "tail -n +2". Also the files in /usr/lib/news/lib are root.root and need to be news.news. (I may have done this somehow, tinkering.) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.14-gentoo-r7-w4l-smp i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r7-w4l-smp i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Last Sync: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d aac alsa alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_usb-audio bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups curl dga dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emacs encode esd fam firefox flac fortran gif glibc-omitfp gstreamer gtk iconv inntaggedhash input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux libg++ live lzo mad maildir mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg musepack ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba sasl sdl sensord session snmp sox speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xanim xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Resolved in the meantime
