cancel feed - what am I doing wrong?

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Kamil,

>I tried to test canceling posts from my spool:
> ==========================
> news at alfa:~$ nc -U /var/run/news/nntpin
> 200 news.kjonca InterNetNews server INN 2.5.1 ready
> MODE CANCEL
> 500 Syntax error or bad command
> ==========================

I think that the whole command is not recognized.
That is to say even MODE.

Otherwise, you would have received "501 Bad subcommand" in the
terminology of INN 2.5.1.

Is your command terminated with "\r\n" (CRLF)?


It is one of the thing I fixed in INN 2.5.2 so that innd accepts
commands ending with only "\n".
Could you please either try with INN 2.5.2 or make sure that you
send "\r\n" with INN 2.5.1?

netcat on Debian does not know the -U flag :-/

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Julien ÉLIE

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