I still have problems using nntpget

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Apr 10 09:32:28 UTC 2000


Sangohn Christian <christian.sangohn at post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> I´m trying to get news articles to feed my INN server with with nntpget
> in the following shell-script:

> #!/bin/sh
> # /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchnews-up
> set -e
> logfile=/var/log/news/nntpget.log
> stampfile=/var/lib/news/nntpget.last
> exec >> ${logfile} 2>&1
> su - news -c "/usr/lib/news/bin/nntpget -o news.rwth-aachen.de"
> echo >> ${logfile}
> /usr/bin/touch -m ${stampfile}

> But all I get is the error:
> "Can't authenticate with (null), Illegal seek"

> Can somebody hellp me with this? I´ve read he man page (again) and found
> no clue.

You don't have server set in inn.conf; you need to set it to the hostname
of the local server (not the remote server you're pulling news from).

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



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