Re: Leafnode problem

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Christopher Clark wrote: > After trying and failing to use INN, I removed it using dpkg and installed > leafnode. I had to use fetch -f but after that it seemed to work fine when I > manually kicked it. But when I added it to my cron.daily job ( su news -

Leafnode problem

2000-04-24 Thread Christopher Clark
After trying and failing to use INN, I removed it using dpkg and installed leafnode. I had to use fetch -f but after that it seemed to work fine when I manually kicked it. But when I added it to my cron.daily job ( su news -c "/usr/sbin/fetch" ) I get: shell-init: could not get current directory:

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:00:35PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in > > > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
... this is Debian, everything should 'just work'! I haven't used leafnode on Debian. I installed it on a RedHat machine, but from a tarball (ie not with an rpm). I had to change the permissions/owner of a few files and directories before it worked properly (some things have to be writeable by the

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ and are listed in > > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk too. > > Have you tried running 'texp

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
[reformatted] On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:17:19PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > 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: > > Have you

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
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 authenti

leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool/news/interesting.groups] # fetchnews -vvv 1.9.9: verbosity level is 3 [snip irrelevancy] Trying to conne

leafnode problem

1997-06-14 Thread Ciccio
Hi, Recently I installed leafnode and from then on there is no way to connect with the news. Netscape complains about a TCP/IP connection error and something like `no route to host'. (pings succeed). I tried to uninstall but no change. My relations to th ISP are somewhat dense, but I don't believe