Re: problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread john
Tim Bell writes: > When I post news from my machine, I get mail back with inews: No valid > newsgroups in misc.test > ... > and I'm trying to send news to an nntp server. Are you trying to post directly to a remote nntp server, or are you trying to post to your local server and have it feed the ar

RE: problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread George Bonser
On 01-Oct-97 Tim Bell wrote: > >Do I have to have an up-to-date /var/lib/news/active file? I guess I'd >rather that the server looked after all that, since I have no local >newsgroups (as yet...). Yes, you will need an active file. Inews can not post to a group that is not found in the active f

problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I can't find anthing in the docs about this, and I'm sure it's something simple I've just overlooked... When I post news from my machine, I get mail back with inews: No valid newsgroups in misc.test The setup is my local machine, with: ii nntp1.5.12.1-1 A NNTP server