From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SXrAS-0004pv-2Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:50:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BD06E07CC; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69053E071D for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:48:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbrr13 with SMTP id rr13so1809000pbb.40 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 02:48:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=QchV+6HrDcEYRo+nJVLcnU5fPfcIt3JqJp0WzZgHp5E=; b=JrBXuAtHZRYZQg9YEQp47CwT8Q9l2TRuNaqUP+Qhp+qn7Cf+GsSs/vAPQrdwli4y81 +U0HZlgWEakrEfBU4yoEcMFThOywjuUFLM49AUMjIJfzSQcu7Ak3dP8ml/O5bcm0yKC8 v6caWK4ms2f9fDAmnN5HhSa0vIMggQXb1gwRU7iItSCaBU4pzgn9kwYCleaG3h/Aexz5 A1bPAFuwTKim0zi8ul8ndhef+dkKb5DSl0x6y6TzXI2i1pSEnPZJJ1sh/1GnuTd5R0fL F3h/dgqgZkrBb0bKvjD+866K4UiIMjP0WI++TQTqvV8cCOzNsAhFdhqgHl1Y3/4t87tw hfoQ== Received: by 10.68.197.41 with SMTP id ir9mr31283368pbc.20.1337939319474; Fri, 25 May 2012 02:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from badass.gateway.2wire.net (adsl-68-123-159-2.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net. [68.123.159.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id qq2sm8537065pbc.27.2012.05.25.02.48.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 25 May 2012 02:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 02:49:09 -0700 From: ny6p01@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: ?????? Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to access newsgroup? Message-ID: <20120525094909.GA4121@badass.gateway.2wire.net> References: <20120525033044.GA3661@Gentoo> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120525033044.GA3661@Gentoo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: d90a151c-9ba9-43f4-bef6-919738089b7f X-Archives-Hash: 7246bb6578c3a5c7a0b16499bfc1f16b 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