newsfeed and inews question

[Russ Allbery]

Matthew Harrell <mharrell at bittwiddlers.com> writes:

> I've got inn working fine and I'm just trying to figure out how to push
> my posted articles up to the upstream news server.

> I've tried to "telnet news.... 119" and run the ihave command but I get
> the message:

>         500 Syntax Error or Unknown Command

Your upstream news server isn't allowing you to feed it, only read from it
and post to it.

> I'm assuming this is because I'm not in the hosts.nntp file and
> therefore I can't upload through that method.

Right.

> I do seem to be able to post to the remote server through inews and the
> messages arrive correctly.  I haven't been able to find anything talking
> about this (but I may have the wording incorrect) - is there any kind of
> entry I can put in nntpfeeds that will upload my locally posted articles
> through the inews program?

The package "suck" comes with a program that can propagate outgoing posts
via POST to a remote server, and it works with INN.  (I believe it's
called rpost.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>