On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:35:41 -0400, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> Have you uncommented nntp in your inetd.conf file? > > Can you telnet localhost 119? What do I enter for the server information in pan? arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # cat /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode-nntp # default: off # description: Leafnode - accepts connections on port 119 (NNTP) service nntp { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = news server = /usr/sbin/leafnode disable = no } arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # cat /etc/xinetd.conf # # This is the master xinetd configuration file. Settings in the # default section will be inherited by all service configurations # unless explicitly overridden in the service configuration. See # xinetd.conf in the man pages for a more detailed explanation of # these attributes. defaults { # The next two items are intended to be a quick access place to # temporarily enable or disable services. # # enabled = # disabled = # Define general logging characteristics. log_type = SYSLOG daemon info log_on_failure = HOST log_on_success = PID HOST DURATION EXIT # Define access restriction defaults # # no_access = only_from = localhost # max_load = 0 cps = 50 10 instances = 50 per_source = 10 # Address and networking defaults # # bind = # mdns = yes v6only = no # setup environmental attributes # # passenv = groups = yes umask = 002 # Generally, banners are not used. This sets up their global defaults # # banner = # banner_fail = # banner_success = } includedir /etc/xinetd.d arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # fetchnews -fvv leafnode 1.11.5: verbosity level is 2, debugmode is 0 Forced active fetch requested from command-line (option -f). try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="arrakis.doesntexist.org" news.gmane.org: connecting to port nntp... news.gmane.org: connected. news.gmane.org: using STAT <message-ID> command. news.gmane.org: 0 articles posted. news.gmane.org: getting all newsgroups (debug: active: nil, forceactive: true) news.gmane.org: getting newsgroup descriptions news.gmane.org: reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/ news.gmane.org news.gmane.org: conversation completed, disconnected. wrote active file with 9772 lines Started process to update overview data in the background. Network activity has finished. arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Trying ::1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # telnet arrakis Trying 192.168.2.110... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # telnet arrakis.doesntexist.org Trying 192.168.2.110... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # date Sun Sep 2 21:39:57 PDT 2007 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # thanks, Thufir _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users