Re: trouble adding a newsgroup

Hi Steve,

> It's not working yet. Here's what I've done, as root.

Ah, as root?

> 1) snnewgroup eclipse.newcomer news.eclipse.org 119
> 2) cd   /var/spool/news/.outgoing/news.eclipse.org:119
> 3) echo my-username >username
> 4) echo my-password >password
> 5) chmod 600 username password
> 6) snget
> 
> At this point, snget downloads news articles from my ISP (no problem),
> but when it attempts to download articles from news.eclipse.org, I get
> these error messages:
> 
>   snfetch:eclipse.newcomer:Bad response to GROUP, got "480 Authentication
>   required for command"
>   snget:reap:job eclipse.newcomer exited 3
>   cat: username: Permission denied

This looks like one problem.  username is 600 which is correct, yet it
still can't be read.  I'd guess it's owned by root not sn and that the
program is running as sn.  Try `chmod sn.sn username password'.

Cheers,


Ralph.