I still have problems using nntpget

[Sangohn Christian]

Hello and happy new year!

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.

Thanks.
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