At 08:50 PM 12/8/00 -0800, you wrote:
>I have been trying to get fts to work on my DNEWS system, but can't seem
>to get it right. I never seem to be able to create an ftsfeed.send file,
>and the ftsfeed.log always contains the following series:
>
> 8 07:55:00: Local site {news}
> 8 07:55:00: nntp: Doing forward DNS lookup
> 8 07:55:00: nntp: forward DNS completed
> 8 07:55:00: Flush successful 480 User and password still required,
> authinfo command
>
>any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Ooops, yes, you need to grant access to the local host without requiring a
username or password, basically the indexer connects to dnews and it's
having trouble reading the messages.
In access.conf add at the END.
127.0.0.1:read,post:::*
machines.own.ip.address:read,post:::*
Then it should work.
ChrisP.