Subject: slrnpull won't work on Mindspring.com
Date: Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 01:18:58PM -0400
In reply to:Wayne Topa
Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (now [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> I am trying out a new ISP and have run into a problem I have not seen
> before. I wonder if anyone else might have run into this?
>
> I use slrn to get newsgroups and has been working fine. I am, however,
> having a problem using slrnpull, 'on this new ISP (mindspring). When
> slrnpull goes out to get 'any' group, it returns the error:
>
> ***Error selecting group comp.os.linux.development.system. Code = 480
>
> The .slrnrc file has the required, Hostname, Username & password
> entries and I assume that slrnpull uses is as well as slrn.
>
> Has anyone seen this error before and found a fix for it? The ISP's
> service people don't know Linux and, as usual, say that is the problem
> and the error code is being returned by slrn. I find no
> information anywhere indicating any error codes returned by slrn.
>
> I doubt slrn/slrnpull is the problem, as I have used slrmpull on 4-6 ISP's
> without any problems in the past.
>
> BTW, mindspring says that they do not, as of now, support Linux.
I an glad that I can respond with a fix to my oun post.
I went looking for answers and found it on "news.software.readers"
newsgroup.
480 = Authentication required for command
>From the slrnpull FAQ:
If your server requires authorization information, create a file called
`authinfo' in the slrnpull directory. The file should consist of
two lines: the first line should contain the username and the
second should contain the password.
Thanks to "Jörg Strohmayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for posting that! It
has fixed the problem.
I felt bad that I had not found that in my search so I reread the
slrn.FAQ included with Slink. It seem that th FAQ in Slink does not
have that info for some reason.
Anyway, now I can switch ISP's! Mindspring downloads are much faster
then what I have been getting from netcom.
Hope this might help someone else out.
Wayne
--
Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware
has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing
machines are so poor at I/O.
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Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
