You must have a newsgroup named "control" and a newsgroup named
"junk" for innd to start.  Since innd isn't running, you can edit
the active file directly

Add these lines:

control 0000000000 0000000000 y
junk 0000000000 0000000000 y

--tal

Also make sure that the directories in the spool either don't exist or
are writable by the news user.

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