Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> Thanks, everyone, for all your help. I think I might have found
> the solution thanks to songbird:
>
> > then remove the zero length file and remove the .overview file
> > for that group and see if you can then get that message again.
> > i think a missing .overview file s
Thanks, everyone, for all your help. I think I might have found
the solution thanks to songbird:
> then remove the zero length file and remove the .overview file
> for that group and see if you can then get that message again.
> i think a missing .overview file should be regenerated every time
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless
that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
So I got interested and went i
On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless
that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
So I got interested and went investigating and I confess that I have
abs
Curt wrote:
> On 2022-04-18, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>> Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
>> be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless
>> that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
>>
>
>
>
> slrn --debug FILE
>
> Then look in FILE for po
On 2022-04-18, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
> be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless
> that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
>
slrn --debug FILE
Then look in FILE for possible edification.
On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 02:50:01 +0200 songbird
wrote:
[description of .jnewsrc snipped]
I've tried fiddling with .jnewsrc, but that doesn't seem to be
the problem. I retrieve news with slrnpull, which retrieves
articles and updates .jnewsrc accordingly. This has worked
properly both before and a
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
...
> The zero-length files were easy enough to find, and few enough
> that I just deleted them by hand. No luck. I've even tried
> deleting the entire contents of a group, e.g.:
>
> rm /var/spool/slrnpull/news/linux/debian/user/*
>
> Still no luck. The group header window s
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 05:40:02 +0200 songbird
wrote:
["Server read failed." when trying to enter a newsgroup]
> i have four thoughts.
>
> first one would be to do a fsck on that file system (after
> unmounting it).
No joy
> second one is to restore from backup or redownload articles
> after
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> Running Buster:
> Linux cjglap2 4.19.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.235-1 (2022-03-17)
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Today when I tried reading Usenet I ran into problems. I use slrnpull
> to fetch news from a server - that part still works. When I run slrn to
> read the news, i
Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> A couple weeks ago I had a problem while using slrn, with an error
> wriitng to file after I tried to exit. The input/output error messages
> I got suggested a hard drive problem, but that came to nothing. The
> whole thing was discussed in another thread here
Adam Funk spake thusly on 02/06/2006 06:57 AM:
The slrn.sourceforge.net documentation says Unicode support is
dependent on Slang 2, and that you can compile late version against
that library to get Unicode support.
The unstable version of slrn, however, requires libslang2 but does
support UTF-8.
On Sunday 26 September 2004 2:11 pm, Josef Oswald wrote:
> Thanks for the link:-)
Yer welcome... I have long been of the opinion that writing a sigmonster
is like a jedi crafting his own lightsaber; each is just slightly different
just like it's creator , and its a right of passage...
I wrote m
Brad Sims wrote on Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:00:15 +0200:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 12:25 pm, Josef Oswald wrote:
>> I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for
>> random signatures :-)
>>
>
> I have a tar-ball of sigs and my sigmonster online here:
> http://home.insightbb.c
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:40:18 -0400
Michael Marsh disseminated the following:
> I found that running it in my .cshrc changed my signature often enough for my
> tastes, but you could go nuts and set up a cron job that runs every minute if
> you really want to (not that I could stop you anyway).
I d
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:55:23 +0200, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link:
> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig
Here's what I wrote for my own use. It uses a single file of quotes.
Consider thi
On Friday 24 September 2004 12:25 pm, Josef Oswald wrote:
> I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for
> random signatures :-)
>
I have a tar-ball of sigs and my sigmonster online here:
http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Sigfiles/current_sigs.tar.gz
http://home.insightbb.
s. keeling wrote on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200:
> Incoming from Josef Oswald:
>>
>> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link:
>>
>> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig
>>
>> At the end it says one need to create for each quote a sin
Incoming from Josef Oswald:
>
> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link:
>
> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig
>
> At the end it says one need to create for each quote a single file, my
> question is:
> what name can I use and or does
* Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-04 13:37]:
> I think slrn has problems drawing line-drawing characters in unicode
> locales. I don't think this is a Konsole bug.
You can use this to replace the arrows by ASCII-Chars:
$ grep simulate .slrnrc
set simulate_graphic_chars 1
Julius
--
less
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:20:06 +0200, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Dear People,
>
> I'm running sarge. I recently noticed (I don't reboot my machine very
> often and only discover breakage when I reboot) that the red threading
> in slrn was now replaced by red blocks. I'm not sure what the problem
> is, b
In linux.debian.user, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Michael C. wrote:
> > Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so,
> > are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts.
> >
> > I see a lot of lines that end in '=20', and that lo
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Michael C. wrote:
> Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so,
> are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts.
>
> I see a lot of lines that end in '=20', and that looks
> like something that outlook used to do(does?).
I think it has to
Hi, answering my own post I made a setting in .slrnrc
% If 0, save all groups when writing newsrc file
% if 1, do not save any unsubscribed groups
% if 2, do not save any unread-unsubscribed groups
set write_newsrc_flags 1
which has dramatically improved matters. My .jnewsrc now only shows
the gr
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:17:46AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no
> > way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked
> > all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bitch, but a whole Sunday
> > has ev
> Hi,
>
> I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no
> way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked
> all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bitch, but a whole Sunday
> has evaporated. An install for a dialup offline newsreader should be
> somethi
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:52:25PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I would like it to put it as my real email address which is:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Is there a config file I need to modify?
Fro
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 21:52, Brian Lavender wrote:
> In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I would like it to put it as my real email address which is:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Is there a config file I need to modify?
FWIW, these lin
I figured out what the problem was: a couple of years ago I did once try slrn,
and used it for a bit. Apparently in my .bashrc I still had a leftover alias
from way back then:
alias slrn = 'slrn"" -C --spool'
Do!
--
Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:13:04PM -0400, John F. Davis wrote:
> I don't know if this will help, but I had to set the read active flag to true.
> Otherwise, I never got any groups from my isp.
Nope, didn't help. Thanks for the try.
--
Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toron
> I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a
> news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a
> non-existent local spool! It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h
> SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environment, etc. I've done pretty mu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Wagnon wrote:
--snip--
>I'm trying to set up slrn to use leafnode. Leafnode appears to be
>installed okay and I have a list of newsgroup descriptions and all
>other things that leafnode/fetchnews seems to set up. However, I
>can't get slrn to behave. I keep gett
On 02/24/00 11:57AM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> In your case, with only a single machine involved, putting localhost into
> /etc/news/server should work, though I prefer to use the box's own name
> instead.
Thanks. That's what I ended up doing. I'll try to set it up with my
machine name a little late
Mark Wagnon said:
> My question is, *what* do I set as my news server when using
> leafnode? Do I use localhost? news.smaug.com (my system's domain)?
The name of the machine on which leafnode runs.
For example, I have slrn and leafnode set up on two machines here, pchan and
genma. genma is my ge
On 02/23/00 06:52PM, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I've just started using tin and leafnode. I'm finding that I need to
> use rtin rather than tin, pointed at localhost.
>
> Hmmm... Ok, just installed slrn:
>
> slrn -h localhost
>
> or
>
> slrn -h hostname
>
That worked. I could have
I've just started using tin and leafnode. I'm finding that I need to
use rtin rather than tin, pointed at localhost.
Hmmm... Ok, just installed slrn:
slrn -h localhost
or
slrn -h hostname
You might want to look under /var/spool/news to see that you actually
have groups and items liste
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 02:50:39PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> Aah! I found a log in /var/spool/slrnpull containing log entries since
> June 1998. Shouldn't it be in /var/log?
Probably should - it would certainly be more intuitive.
> 07/20/1999 21:57:39 ***Article
> /var/spool/slrnpull/out.g
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> Well, see the questions above. Try moving the articles into the
> outgoing directory and running slrnpull from the command line. Try
> looking in the system logs in /var/log to see if any information went
> there.
Aah! I found a log in /var/spool/slrnp
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > > I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a
> > > newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/s
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a
> > newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going/rejected?
>
> Without seeing any error messages
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a
> newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going/rejected?
Without seeing any error messages it's hard to say, but I would guess
that the proble
Have you tried
slrn --spool ?
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried "plain" slrn,
> but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read,
> reply, compose, etc. off line.
>
> So, I set up the slrnpull.conf lik
> slrn --spool
I already tried that with the following configuration:
--- ~/.slrnrc ---
set spool_inn_root "~/News/slrnpull"
set spool_root "~/News/slrnpull/news"
set spool_nov_root "~/News/slrnpull/news"
set read_active 1
set use_slrnpull 1
set server_object "spool"
set spool_a
slrn --spool
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:07:19PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried "plain" slrn,
> but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read,
> reply, compose, etc. off line.
>
> So, I set up the slrnpull.conf li
On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote:
> Quoting Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > It's not peculiar to the potato version. I get the same thing in hamm. I've
> > had to download the "active" file separately and abstract the entries I
> > need.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
>
> How do you download
Quoting Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Using the latest potato version of SLRN. No matter which news server I use,
> > when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news
> > list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX.
On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Using the latest potato version of SLRN. No matter which news server I use,
> when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news
> list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX. How do I get the full list from the news server?
>
> slrn
Hi Paul Miller; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
>
> I can't figure out how to scroll down in the message window. The help
> screen says to press ESC + UP/DOWN .. this works, but it is extremely slow
> (keys and only 1 line at a time)... Is there a way to use PgDn/PgUp?
>
> Thanks
> -Paul
I
On Sat, 30 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi! I just installed slrn,
> I am doing "slrn -f .newsrc -create" to get the list of groups from my
> news server. After getting afew hundred kilobytes, it says the connection to
> the
> server has been lost and stops. (I have a pretty slow p
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 03:57:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ah, I think I remember this problem now. What version of slrn are you using?
> I notive this in the changelog:
>
> slrn (0.9.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Change umask to 022 in ip-up script for slrnpull, reset when done.
>
> I
Pann McCuaig wrote:
> ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora: Permission denied
>
> I can view the articles with less. And anytime I run
> 'slrnpull -h hermes.rdrop.com' out of ip-up, if there are _any_
> articles pulled down, I can no longer see a list of newsgroups until I
> run 'slrnpull --expire'.
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 12:34:04PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Could you look at the slrnpull spool directory in /var, and see if there
> appear to be articles in it?
$ ls -R /var/spool/slrnpull/news
agora or orst pdxpnw
ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora: Permission denied
ls: /var/spo
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 07:52:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Pann McCuaig wrote:
> > When I invoke 'slrn --spool' I have no newsgroups listed. I'm sure it's
> > something simple but I'm missing it.
>
> This is becoming a FAQ. :-)
>
> README.slrnpull.gz
>
> Read this file. Specifically:
>
> Set
Pann McCuaig wrote:
> When I invoke 'slrn --spool' I have no newsgroups listed. I'm sure it's
> something simple but I'm missing it.
This is becoming a FAQ. :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/slrn>ls README.slrnpull.gz
README.slrnpull.gz
Read this file. Specifically:
Setting up a minimal .slrnrc f
On 97/11/23 at 18:33 PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Victor Torrico wrote:
> > I'm using the latest slrn .deb package. slrn works fine by itself and
> > slrnpull
> > pulls in news group traffic OK.
> >
> > What must one do to let slrn view the traffic pulled in by slrnpull? I
> > can't
> > seem
Victor Torrico wrote:
> I'm using the latest slrn .deb package. slrn works fine by itself and
> slrnpull
> pulls in news group traffic OK.
>
> What must one do to let slrn view the traffic pulled in by slrnpull? I can't
> seem to figure out how to do this.
Hi, I maintain slrn, but I haven't ac
I am far from being knowledgable on Linux but I struggled with this
recently and this worked for me on debian 1.2 with the most recent deb
version of slrn. Go to the appropriate line in your .slrnrc script file.
Remove the % sign to uncomment the line. You do need to use the quote
marks. Mainta
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