cannot post news

[Russ Allbery]

Uwe Wagner <Uwe.Beach at gmx.de> writes:

> I've a problem posting news with INN.  I'm using SuSE 6.2.  INN is
> running on rnieb and I want to read and post news with netscape or knews
> running on kiraly.  I fetch the with suck and reading is ok.  If I post
> a new message, it will be saved in /var/spool/news/in.coming.

> What do I have to do now ?

It sounds like you either have spoolfirst set in inn.conf or nnrpd can't
find the local socket to talk to innd.  The articles should get posted
directly to the newsgroup and then will go into the outgoing feed for
rpost to nntpsend to pick up.

A workaround is to run rnews -U periodically from cron, but it would be
better to determine why nnrpd can't post directly.

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