* Re: [gentoo-user] How to access newsgroup?
@ 2012-05-25 9:49 99% ` ny6p01
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From: ny6p01 @ 2012-05-25 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user; +Cc: ??????
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
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