[slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

[J Horacio MG <homega@vlc.servicom.es>]

Hi,

I installed slrn and slrnpull.  For a short while I tried "plain" slrn,
but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read,
reply, compose, etc. off line.

So, I set up the slrnpull.conf like follows:

--------- /etc/news/slrnpull.conf ---------
default 0 0
group.news.one * *
group.news.two * *
...
--------- /etc/news/slrnpull.conf ---------

Then used the command:

$ slrnpull -h news.vlc.servicom.es -d ~/News/slrnpull

which seemed to work just fine.  But the problem is with the newsreader
slrn, which works fine by itself (on line), but I can't make it open the
spool.  These are the settings I placed in .slrnrc:

--------- ~/.slrnrc ---------
set spool_inn_root "~/News/slrnpull"
set spool_root "~/News/slrnpull/news"
set spool_nov_root "~/News/slrnpull/news"
set read_active 1
set use_slrnpull 1
%
%set server_object "spool"
%
 set spool_active_file "data/active"
 set spool_activetimes_file "data/active.times"
 set spool_newsgroups_file "data/newsgroups"

%% -- The following filenames are relative to spool_nov_root
 set spool_nov_file ".overview"

set spool_check_up_on_nov 0
--------- ~/.slrnrc ---------

but I can't make slrn read the spool off line:

$ slrn
slrn 0.9.5.3 (Oct  8 1998 11:59:00)

Reading startup file /etc/news/slrn.rc.
Reading startup file /home/user/.slrnrc.
Connecting to host news.vlc.servicom.es ...news.vlc.servicom.es: Unknown
host.
slrn fatal error:
Failed to initialize server.

Could anyone help me with this, please?  I've gone through all slrn and
slrnpull documentation I've found, but nothins (actually, I haven't seen
any mention of slrnpull in slrn home page nor anywhere else, just
/usr/doc/slrnpull/README.gz).

-- 
Horacio
homega@vlc.servicom.es
Valencia - ESPAÑA