Re: [leafnode-list] newby fetchnews problem

[Ross Slade <rosco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Cornelius Krasel wrote:

> Ross Slade wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Cornelius Krasel wrote:
> > > Second, after the first run of "fetchnews" you should find in this
> > > directory a file named "groupinfo" containing all newsgroups on your
> > > upstream server.
> > 
> > This is where it all falls apart - when I run fetchnews it hesitates for a
> > moment then just exits with no output (either to screen or disk).
> 
> In that case, you would have to provide me with a debug log to give

Here's the debug log file, hopefully it'll tell you something (maybe that I've
messed up yet again?)  8-)

Thanks, Ross


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May 13 10:04:20 bunyip leafnode[16438]: config: debugmode is 1
May 13 10:04:20 bunyip leafnode[16438]: config: expire is 20 days
May 13 10:04:20 bunyip leafnode[16438]: config: initialfetch is 1000
May 13 10:04:20 bunyip leafnode[16438]: rereading /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
May 13 10:04:29 bunyip leafnode[16438]: <ÿôÿý^Fquit 
May 13 10:04:29 bunyip leafnode[16438]: rereading /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
May 13 10:04:29 bunyip leafnode[16438]: >500 Unknown command
May 13 10:04:35 bunyip leafnode[16438]: <ÿôÿý^Fÿôÿý^Fÿôÿý^F 
May 13 10:04:35 bunyip leafnode[16438]: rereading /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
May 13 10:04:35 bunyip leafnode[16438]: >500 Unknown command
May 13 10:04:35 bunyip leafnode[16438]: < 
May 13 10:04:36 bunyip last message repeated 2 times
May 13 10:04:38 bunyip leafnode[16438]: <exit 
May 13 10:04:38 bunyip leafnode[16438]: rereading /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
May 13 10:04:38 bunyip leafnode[16438]: >500 Unknown command
May 13 10:04:45 bunyip leafnode[16438]: <ÿôÿý^F 
May 13 10:04:45 bunyip leafnode[16438]: rereading /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
May 13 10:04:45 bunyip leafnode[16438]: >500 Unknown command
May 13 10:04:45 bunyip leafnode[16438]: >400 Service discontinued