Re: leafnode problem
Have you tried reading the leafnode-generated message in the newsgroup
you wish to subscribe to? You must do this to activate leafnode's
downloading of that newsgroup's articles.
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use leafnode to access my university's nntphost, which
> requires authentication. It appears to connect okay, but it doesn't
> ever fetch any articles:
>
> [root@skinny /var/spool/news/interesting.groups] # fetchnews -vvv
> 1.9.9: verbosity level is 3
> [snip irrelevancy]
> Trying to connect to news.pair.com ... connected.
> Getting new newsgroups from news.pair.com
> [snip irrelevancy]
> Disconnected from news.pair.com.
> Trying to connect to nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk ... connected.
> Getting new newsgroups from nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk
> Read server info from
> /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk
> comp.unix.shell: considering articles 80403-81561
> uk.forsale: considering articles 30251-60240
> strath.cs.forsale: considering articles 4-12
> pair.future: considering articles 3-221
>
> Bizarrely, nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk only carries strath.*, not
> comp.unix.shell, uk.forsale or pair.future (the latter being a
> pair.com-only newsgroup!) and I've got interesting.newsgroups/ files
> for many more strath.* newsgroups than strath.cs.forsale, but they're
> never mentioned by fetchnews.
>
> The other two news servers I'm using work perfectly well (the pair.com
> one requires authentication too), and I can use slrn to directly
> access the nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk one (so my password isn't
> incorrect). But I still can't get fetchnews to download articles from
> the university server.
>
> Can anyone help me find what I'm doing wrong? What sort of thing
> should I be looking for?
> --
> alisdair mcdiarmid alisdair@jml.net
> [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]
>
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