Re: cnews/nntp/slrn Problem

2000-01-28 Thread hawk
> i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. > Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn > hangs with "posting...". check /etc/news/inn.conf Switching to potato, it replaced this file without asking me, and there are two lines that the man page says

cnews/nntp/slrn Problem

2000-01-28 Thread Dennis Schoen
Hi all, i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn hangs with "posting...". In my /etc/news/nntp_access: localhost bothpost and slrn outputs on start: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ slrn slrn

Re: SLRN problem (SOLVED, I hope)

1997-12-31 Thread Pann McCuaig
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

Re: SLRN problem

1997-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
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'.

Re: SLRN problem

1997-12-30 Thread Pann McCuaig
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

Re: SLRN problem

1997-12-30 Thread Pann McCuaig
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

Re: SLRN problem

1997-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
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

SLRN problem

1997-12-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
I'm running a bo system and have just installed slrn (and slrnpull). No problems with the install, or setting up slrnpull to query the NNTP server at my ISP. I can see in the log that articles are being pulled down, and I can see them spread about under /var/spool/slrnpull/news. I've RTFMed READM