Re: [leafnode-list] Output from fetchnews -vv

["William Hooper" <whooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter James said:
> As requested, 2nd attempt
>
> linux:/home/pete # /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews -vv
> leafnode 1.9.40.rel: verbosity level is 2
> try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="petefjames.clara.co.uk"
> Trying to connect to news.claranews.com:nntp ... connected.
> Using STAT <message-ID> command on this server.
> news.claranews.com: 0 articles posted
> check_date: news.claranews.com: clocks of upstream and this computer are
> more
> th                                                              an
> 10 minutes apart. Check your system clock.
> Getting all newsgroups from news.claranews.com
[snip]
> Newsgroup name conflict, chose ut.ecf.comp9t5
> Reading newsgroups descriptions failed: 501 bad command usage.
> Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.claranews.com
> claranet.support: considering articles 40960 - 40962
> claranet.support: 3 articles fetched, 0 killed
> claranet.systems: no new articles
> alt.os.linux.suse: considering articles 121899 - 121906
> alt.os.linux.suse: 8 articles fetched, 0 killed
> uk.rec.birdwatching: no new articles
> Disconnected from news.claranews.com.
> wrote active file with 58835 lines
> Forked child process to update XOVER information.
> linux:/home/pete #
>
> Hope this is what you want.
> Peter

I would guess your problem is that "Reading newsgroups descriptions
failed: 501 bad command usage" line.  Since Leafnode can't get the
descriptions it probably marks that it didn't get the list correctly.

Have you tried setting "nodesc = 1" for that server in the config file?
-- 
William Hooper

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