Funnel_bad... can't find newsfeed server?

Shena Delian O'Brien shena at darklock.com
Sun Oct 12 19:31:28 UTC 2003


Russ Allbery wrote:

> Shena Delian O'Brien <shena at darklock.com> writes:
> 
>>The new server accepts the newsfeed just fine, only I can't figure out
>>how to get it to get all the old archives messages. So that's question
>>#1.
> 
> 
> See <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.4>.

I actually followed those instructions already. After the last line 
(before the innxmit message) the command line wouldn't come back. It 
just stayed blank. I couldn't get a command line in order to type in the 
innxmit message.

> 
>>The new server will not send a newsfeed to the old server. The error
>>message in news.crit is that the new server is a funnel_bad.
> 
> 
> You probably have a syntax error in your newsfeeds file.  Could you mail
> your newsfeeds file on the new server to the list?

It's the *exact* copied entry from the old server, just named differently...

darklock\
         :!junk,webdiscuss.*,domainjunkies,t-shirts,urlsi,!control*\
         :Tm:infeed!


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