On Aug 12, 8:24pm, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Subject: Suck doesn't download news
> I have been trying to get suck working and haven't had any luck.
> Everything seems to work with no complaints and no error messages, but
> it always reports that there is nothing to download. I can use the
> testhost command to download the active file, and there is a suck.newrc
> file left in the /tmp directory that shows the highest available
> entry in each newsgroup from my sucknewsrc file, so it seems to be
> communicating OK. Has anybody else had anything similar to this happen?
> I am using the package version 2.6.3-1 from the stable release.
>
> Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yeah, I had this happen, when I was connecting to a news server w/o the
newnews command (newnews group yymmdd hhmmss) Therefore it couldnt get a list
of news to d/l. THis was NetManage NNS server for NT. I moved on to a
regular innd and it worked fine. But honestly I prefer this modified Tiny News
perl script. Check out the Tiny-News Howto
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