Gossamer wrote: > > My Debian install's -almost- making sense now! > > Just a few tiny things ... when I run get-news to download > Usenet via suck, I get this: > > [snip] > Total articles to download: 929 > 1836135 Bytes received in 62 mins 54.05 secs, BPS = 486.5 > Closed connection to news.mel.aone.net.au > Building INN Batch File > Downloaded Articles > You can hang up the modem now > Nothing sent -- leaving batchfile alone. > Local posting error > > ... and none of the articles appear in the local spool. > > "Local posting error" isn't very informative! I've checked > /etc/suck/get-news.conf and it looks right. I'm not an innd guru > though, is there anything there I have to alter to let suck post my > news locally? > > > Gossamer > Just spent about 4 hours trying to figure that out too. I had localhost in /etc/news/hosts.nntp.nolimit which is supposed to give localhost access. But is doesn't. I had to add localhost to /etc/news/hosts.nntp in order to make it work. I'm sure somebody allready filed a bug report on that. (I'll check later)
John.
