... this is Debian, everything should 'just work'!
I haven't used leafnode on Debian. I installed it on a RedHat machine,
but from a tarball (ie not with an rpm). I had to change the
permissions/owner of a few files and directories before it worked
properly (some things have to be writeable by the 'news' user). The
readme file that comes with it covers this. It should be in the .deb as
well, (installed in /usr/doc/leafnode* maybe?). Maybe you could check
that everything is in order, as I did.
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in
> > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ and are listed in
> > > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk too.
> >
> > Have you tried running 'texpire' before running fetch?
>
> Yes (just now) - no difference.
>
> I did just notice something else though: leafnode attempts to post an
> article twice! I've no idea why this is happening at all - I can't
> even post to nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk, and it doesn't have a feed of
> the newsgroup I'm trying to post to! Here's the log, the lines
> beginning `Posting' are relevant:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/alisdair] # fetchnews -vvv
> 1.9.9: verbosity level is 3
> Trying to connect to news.colloquium.co.uk ... connected.
> Posting 3380-947222199-1...
> - OK
> Getting new newsgroups from news.colloquium.co.uk
> Read server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.colloquium.co.uk
> comp.unix.programmer: considering articles 517-517
> comp.unix.programmer: will fetch 517 (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> comp.unix.programmer: receiving article 517 (0 more up in the air)
> storing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: comp.unix.programmer
> ..as article 491 in comp.unix.programmer
> comp.unix.programmer: 1 articles fetched, 0 killed
> comp.unix.shell: no new articles
> comp.unix.questions: no new articles
> uk.comp.os.linux: no new articles
> uk.forsale: considering articles 1-71
> Disconnected from news.colloquium.co.uk.
> Trying to connect to news.pair.com ... connected.
> Getting new newsgroups from news.pair.com
> Read server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.pair.com
> pair.community: considering articles 5017-5316
> pair.announce: no new articles
> pair.users: no new articles
> pair.notices: no new articles
> pair.network: no new articles
> pair.mail: no new articles
> pair.future: no new articles
> Disconnected from news.pair.com.
> Trying to connect to nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk ... connected.
> Posting 3380-947222199-1...
> Article 3380-947222199-1 rejected: 441 you do not have posting access
> to {uk.comp.os.linux}
> Getting new newsgroups from nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk
> Read server info from
> /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk
> comp.unix.shell: considering articles 80438-81561
> uk.forsale: considering articles 30251-60240
> strath.cs.forsale: considering articles 4-12
> pair.future: considering articles 3-221
> Disconnected from nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk.
>
> And here's my /etc/news/leafnode/config (comments stripped, passwords
> removed):
>
> server = news.colloquium.co.uk
> expire = 90
> supplement = news.pair.com
> username = pair
> password =
> supplement = nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk
> username = amcdiarm
> password =
> maxage = 90
> create_all_links = 1
>
> What could be causing this? Help! :-)
> --
> alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]
>
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