Re: Suck doesn't download news
>
> In your email to me, Carl Johnson, you wrote:
> >
> > I have been trying to get suck working and haven't had any luck.
> > Everything seems to work with no complaints and no error messages, but
> > it always reports that there is nothing to download. I can use the
> > testhost command to download the active file, and there is a suck.newrc
> > file left in the /tmp directory that shows the highest available
> > entry in each newsgroup from my sucknewsrc file, so it seems to be
> > communicating OK. Has anybody else had anything similar to this happen?
> > I am using the package version 2.6.3-1 from the stable release.
>
> I'm using suck.. it d/l news ok, I just can't post back. I bet you are
> using -1 as an initial number? Try 0.
>
> Tim
I just tried it and it now works fine. So, why do they send the default
setup with -1?
Thanks for your reply.
Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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