Re: inewsinn?

[miquels@drinkel.cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] m0uuOfv-0003G5C@pinky>,
Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <vizzie@pinky.mimosa.org> wrote:
>
>I seem to be having a problem with inewsinn.  I compiled nn locally
>and set it up to use inews (from the inewsinn package) to post the
>article.  However, when inews goes to send the article, it creates
>large amounts of traffic over my serial link.  I would assume it's
>trying to get the active or newsgroups file from my NNTP server.  Is
>this normal, and if so, is there some way to configure or set up
>things so that it won't try to do this?

Hmm, I don't know what its doing but you could try to strace it to
find out. Install "strace" from the devel/ tree, and when your inews
has started find out its process id with "ps ax | grep inews" and then
strace it with "strace -fp process_id_here". You can then see exactly
what it is doing..

Mike.
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