Finally I was successful with leafnode. Problem was with hosts file.
Alias with localhost is necessary it seems. This line is made when RH is
installed. But I commented it and used only for the name I have given.
It was working but for the leafnode. How ever i have seen slrnpull is
very fast than leafnode. But I am not sure it can use gui news reader
like netscape.
Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
>
> > As you can see I didn't get the last line. It hangs after that. Even
> > quit didn't work. even ctrl+c also didn't work. Is localhost is a must
> > for leafnode. My hosts file has lvghomepc.visakha for 127.0.0.1. I have
> > commented out localhost entry given by install for avoiding confusion.
>
> safer to put back localhost at 127.0.0.1 give lvghomepc.visakha a
> 192.168.x.x number and put this same number in leafnode.conf
>
> > I think in the first instance of fetchnews, it should bring the list of
> > newsgroups. Then only with slrn or any other news reader, we can
> > subscribe to that particular newsgroups thro' leafnode as it is the
> > local nntp server. Am I wrong in my understanding?
>
> no, you are correct (assuming that slrn is a newsreader, I use tin). Use
> fetchnews with a -v switch for debug info. Also check if it's the same
> fetchnews that came with leafnode. There is another fetchnews package.
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