Re: What's wrong with my host name?

Peter J Ross wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 22:39:15 Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> I'm brand new to slrn from years of using Agent under wine
>> but I'm getting this error message when starting slrn.
>>
>> Reading startup file /home/lba/.slrnrc.***Warning: Unable to find a
>> unique fully-qualified host name.
>>              slrn will not generate any Message-IDs.
> 
> See "posting_host" in <http://slrn.org/manual/slrn-manual-5.html#ss5.3>.
> 


Thanks for your reply Peter.
I've been playing with slrn and slrnpull this afternoon
and am making some progress but it's a hard slog.


I have made some changes based on your information:
set generate_message_id 0
set post_object "slrnpull"
set use_slrnpull 1

I'm not sure what slrnpull_root should be so I set /etc/bashrc to:
export SLRNPULL_ROOT=/var/lib/slrnpull/
and also made a slrnpull/out.going directory there.

Is this place correct for the news spool?  Shouldn't it be in the users 
home directory?  That's where ~/Mail lives with Thunderbird and Forte 
Agent files but I'd like to keep slrn news separated.

When I execute 'slrn' I get to a screen that says
server: /var/spool/slrnpull/news
and /var/spool/slrnpull contains slrnpull.conf
and data, news and out.going directories.

Next I'm trying to reload the list of newsgroups which didn't seem to 
get saved when I issued
slrn --create

slrn --create isn't getting the newsgroup list anymore.

I also tried
slrnpull --new-groups
but that stalls on getting authenticated from my news server
and there doesn't seem to be a way in slrnpull.conf to authenticate.

After that my next task is to try and subscribe to a newsgroup.

Larry

Larry


-- 
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Linux

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