Re: [gentoo-user] How to access newsgroup?

[ny6p01@gmail.com]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:30:44AM +0800, wenpin cui wrote:
> hi, all,
> 
>     I want to read some newsgroup so emerged net-nntp/slrn.
> 
>     Then I uncompressed "/usr/share/doc/slrn-0.9.9_p1/slrn.rc.bz2" and modify
>     username/hostname/realname, then saved as $HOME/.slrnrc.
> 
>     After that, I run
> 
>         wenpincui@Gentoo ~ $ slrn --create -h news.newsgroup.com.hk
>         slrn 0.9.9p1
> 
>         Loading /usr/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
>         Reading startup file /home/wenpincui/.slrnrc.***Warning: Unable to find a unique fully-qualified host name.
>                     slrn will not generate any Message-IDs.
>                     Please note that the "hostname" setting does not affect this;
>                     see the "slrn reference manual" for details.
> 
>         Using newsrc file /home/wenpincui/.jnewsrc for server news.newsgroup.com.hk.
>         Connecting to host news.newsgroup.com.hk ...
>         Unable to make connection. Giving up.
> 
>         Run-Time Error
>         slrn fatal error:
>         Failed to initialize server.
> 
>     My question is:
>         Am I using slrn correctly?
>         If so, maybe it's resulted by damn firewall, I have to give up.
>       
> -- 
> 
> Best regards
> Wenpin Cui (????????
> Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PRC
> Tel: +86-0571-86726288 ext:8095
> 

Wenpin, make sure you have the nnrpaccess line in there, if your server
requires password:

nnrpaccess "your.news.server.com" "username" "password"

Also, make sure you set the NNTPSERVER environment variable so slrn knows
what server to connect to. Have you set that variable yet?

Terry