Re: problem with sn server

I had this same problem. I switched from inetd to tcpserver and it handles 
the load admirably now. The docs included with sn are quite clear on how to 
set it up. After seeing how well tcpserver handled this little problem, I 
moved all my inetd services to tcpserver.





At 05:25 PM 9/13/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello dear sn users,
>
>i have a little problem with my sn installation. I have an news server 
>account
>where i have subscribed on some newsgroups. I configured sn to download
>new articles from these groups when ever i connect to the internet.
>This seems to work properly.
>When i try to access the sn server with a newsreader program from a client in
>my small home network and start to download a great number of articles that
>mostly contain binaries, the sn server crashes after a while with the 
>following
>message:
>
>Sep 13 17:50:26 internet inetd[317]: nntp/tcp server failing (looping), 
>service terminated
>
>I am using a SuSE distribution version 7.1
>
>hopefully someone out there can help me with my problem
>
>with best regards
>
>Andreas Oster