INND Will not start up

I am attempting to start up a very simple news server to do nothing more
than receive a feed and drop it into a directory.  To get the service up I
installed cleanfeed-0.95.7b-12.noarch.rpm followed by inn-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm.
This was all done as the root user.  I then created an empty history
database through the following commands:

		su  - news
		cd /var/lib/news
		touch history
		makedbz -i
		mv history.n.dir history.dir
		mv history.n.hash history.hash
		mv history.n.index history.index

I then updated my incoming.conf file appropriately and tried starting innd
from root:

		/etc/rc.d/init.d/innd start

When I enter the various innd commands the following are the results:

 	#service innd stop  ( no result)
	#service innd restart 
           Stopping INNFeed service:     [OK]
	   Starting INND system:         [OK]
	#service innd status 
	innd dead but subsys locked

innd is indeed dead, and I'm stuck at this point as to where to go from
here.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Dave