From: garrett@garnet.berkeley.edu (Garrett D'Amore) Subject: [Q - HELP] mini-inews headaches Date: 22 Apr 1993 08:53:17 GMT
Okay, I've been futzing with mini-inews (the version that came with nntp-1.5-11
-- both the precompiled SLS and the one I compiled) and for the life of me
I can't get the bugger to work (it doesn't post).
Symtoms:
Heavy start-up disk access (a lot!), followed by lock up of all terminal level
processes until it dies (I can still switch VCs -- I just can *use* them),
and refusal to post an article to our local NNTP server. Other (non-Linux)
clients appear to work flawlessly. So the problem isn't the server.
I *can* read articles normally using trn or whatever.
Our configuration:
I'm using a campus NNTP server with XTHREAD support and CNEWS. I believe I'm
making the right calls to the server. Two other Ultrix clients can connect
without difficulty using mini-inews.
The Linux box has 8 Mb RAM, 10 Mb swap, and is NOT running X. If memory is
the problem, then there's something fundamentally wrong with inews!
The SERVER:
I just checked (telnet port 119): our server is running INN NNRP 1.4 (3/20/93)
and it is allowing posting. As I understand it, anyone can post to this campus
mail server -- it doesn't check AUTHINFO or anything like that.
Any ideas? I'd really like to fix this problem soon. Is the answer to bail
on mini-inews and go out and get the real thing... (uuugghhh) ? Maybe I'm
not doing something I should? (This is my first shot at news configuration,
so maybe I'm making a common mistake that I missed in a FAQ somewhere?)
Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Respond by e-mail to save network
bandwidth. I'll summarize since one or two other people I know have had the
same problem.
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Software Co-Ordinator | 68 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
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