Re: Gnus doesn't start

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

"M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
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| When I run Gnus, I get an error:
| nntp (news) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
| if I hit y, I get a garbage group, and that's all:
|        *: nndraft:drafts
| If I hit n, I get the following:
| Couldn't open server on news
| 
| trn works fine....
| 
| Any ideas?

What's the value of your NNTPSERVER environment variable? What about
the value of gnus-default-nntp-server in Emacs after you start gnus?
You can add the following to your ~/.gnus file:

(setq gnus-default-nntp-server "news")

where you'll replace "news" with whatever the name of your NNTP server 
is.

Gary