Trouble with Sn and Slrn

Hallo!

Debian Woody, Slrn 0.9.7.4, Sn 0.3.4a


Sn is started with inetd:

nntp    stream  tcp  nowait root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/snntpd


/usr/sbin/snntpd is the following shellscript:

#!/bin/sh
export POSTING_OK=1
exec /usr/sbin/snntpd.bin $@ 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -p news.info


First problem:
Slrn refuses to start - it hangs on 'connecting':

slrn 0.9.7.4 [2002-03-13]

Reading startup file /home/georg/.slrnrc.
Using newsrc file /home/georg/.jnewsrc for server localhost.
Connecting to host localhost ...


I found the reason for this problem: When I only use

exec /usr/sbin/snntpd.bin $@

in the script (instead of piping its output to logger) then slrn
starts successfully up. (So slrn needs this output?)


Second problem:
When I try to send a posting (composed in slrn) I get this error
message:

Error writing to server.
Posting not allowed. Failed post saved in
/home/georg/slrn-failed-post.txt

But: the posting lands in his right place in
/var/spool/news/.outgoing/[...] and is successfully sent with the next
'snget'.

I've found some postings about that problem via google and the most
important is from Patrik: <[email protected]>

So, it seems that I've "got stdout and stderr from snntpd mixed
together". I'm wondering where this happens!?


Gruß, Georg

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