At 12:32 PM 3/5/01 -0600, you wrote:
>First time user of dnews and I can't get suck to work. I did the standard
>install on Windows NT, followed by the "tellnews getgroups" command. I've
>putzed around with this thing for 2 hours with no results, it doesn't appear
>to be going out and sucking down any posts.
Your configuration looks ok, please try the following, first remove
pull true
suck_stream true
from dnews.conf, these shouldn't matter but will make debugging the problem
more difficult.
Then restart dnews and type in:
tellnews getgroups
Then examine dnews.log, you should see it connect to the remote site and
fetch the list of groups, if this step fails try it manually
telnet site news.mn.mediaone.net 119
list
If that fails then your problem is you don't have reader access to
that news server.
If that works or you already have the groups loaded, you can see this
with tellnews status
...
Groups Xover 13 11MB, Cached 21 of 7113, GID 7114, Uptime 0 day(s) 19 hour(s),
...
The key figure in the above line is 7113 groups, you should see some number
greater than 10 :-)
Once you have that working the next step is sucking a group.
tellnews cached alt.some.news.group.name 10
tellnews updateone alt.some.news.group.name
Then examine dnews.log and dnews.in to see what it does, and or send the
logs to us if you
can't figure out the problem and it still doesn't fetch anything.
ChrisP.
