Betr.: Re: Hello? sn doc, where?

Hi,

>> No. No other clients work. Free agent furnishes a clear error message so>
 > that's what I used. 

> Well, it is quite hard to determine your error when you
> don't tell us what is the error message.

Sorry! It says, literally:
Error reported by Server: Usage: POST (-options) <url>...
   -m <method>   use method for the request (default is
'POST')

> 1) Are you sure about your POST variable set?

Meaning the variable POSTING_OK? I wasn't sure about setting it 
with inetd, so inetd calls a script 'startnews' which sets 
POSTING_OK=okidoki and only then calls snntpd. This seems to 
work because sn reports 'Hi, you can post' while it used to say 
'Hi, you can't post.'

> 2) Are you sure the daemon has the right to write to the spool?

Well yes I think so. snntpd runs as user news, and user news owns
/home/news and everything below it.

>3) What happens when you telnet to the server on NNTP port,
>issue a 'post' command, put 'newsgroups:whateveryouhave',
>type some chars and end your procedure with '.'? Does the
>server accept the post?

Trying that as we speak...

...it says the same as POST -h, with appended:

snntpd: do_post:POST died with 255
441 Posting failed

It seems snntpd calls POST wrongly...did I omit something during 
installation?

cheers

Ferenc