cancel feed - what am I doing wrong?

Kamil Jońca kjonca at poczta.onet.pl
Sun Dec 27 02:39:05 UTC 2009


Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> 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)?

Shame on me :( that was the issue.
echo "mode cancel\r"|nc -U /var/run/news/nntpin 
200 news.kjonca InterNetNews server INN 2.5.1 ready
284 CancelOK.


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

Try to install "netcat-openbsd".
KJ
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