Re: Pan - connection failed
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 12:34 GMT, Robert Storey penned:
> I'm having trouble getting the newsreader Pan to work. The funny thing
> is, first time I used it, it worked fine - I was able to grab a list of
> all the groups on the news server. After that, I've been unable to get a
> connection even though I've changed no settings. It's baffling. Here is
> a portion of the log...
>
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:19:09 - Pan 0.13.4 Started
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:19:09 - Directory "/home/bob/.pan/messages/cache"
> contains 0.0 MB in 0 files
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:19:09 - Directory
> "/home/bob/.pan/messages/folders/pan.sendlater" contains 0.0 MB in 0
> files
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:19:09 - Directory
> "/home/bob/.pan/messages/folders/pan.sent" contains 0.0 MB in 0 files
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:19:09 - News server connection count: 0
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:19:10 - Loaded 41628 groups for server "hinet" in
> 0.7 seconds (56345 groups/sec)
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:20:45 - New connection 0x966d278 for
> netnews.hinet.net, port 119
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:20:45 - New connection 0x9678c70 for
> netnews.hinet.net, port 119
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:20:45 - New connection 0x96776c0 for
> netnews.hinet.net, port 119
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:24:04 - Handshake: 200 netnews.hinet.net
> InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4unoff4 05-Mar-96 read
> y (posting ok).
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:24:04 - Handshake: 200 netnews.hinet.net
> InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4unoff4 05-Mar-96 read
> y (posting ok).
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:24:04 - Authentication failed: 502 Authentication
> error
> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:24:04 - Authentication failed: 502 Authentication
> error
>
>
> A google search didn't turn up anything useful. I'd be curious if anyone
> has seen this error and has any suggestions.
>
> regards,
> Robert
>
I haven't, but I'm wondering if maybe your news server requires a
password to access?
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