robi@bacchus.esa.oz.au (RoBeRt KaRp) (12/05/90)
I am trying to install nntp (1.5.10) on an apollo DN3500. We are using the bsd environment. I have compiled up both the nntp server and xrn (6.13) to use as the client, both compile and install OK. However, when I run xrn, I get the following error message: Unexpected response code from bacchus news server: 503 Failed to reconnect to the NNTP server (handle_response), sleeping... Are there some config. points I may have missed, or any ideas at all ? Thanks, - Robi -- INTERNET: robi@bacchus.esa.oz.au ACSnet: robi@bacchus.esa.oz Tel : (+61) (3) 819 4554 Robert Karp/// Fax : (+61) (3) 819 5580 //// UUCP : uunet!bacchus.esa.oz.au!robi \XXX/
lwk@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU (Univ. of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network) (12/07/90)
I am trying to install nntp (1.5.10) on an apollo DN3500. We are using the bsd environment. I have compiled up both the nntp server and xrn (6.13) to use as the client, both compile and install OK. However, when I run xrn, I get the following error message: Unexpected response code from bacchus news server: 503 Failed to reconnect to the NNTP server (handle_response), sleeping... Are there some config. points I may have missed, or any ideas at all ? Thanks, - Robi -- INTERNET: robi@bacchus.esa.oz.au ACSnet: robi@bacchus.esa.oz Tel : (+61) (3) 819 4554 Robert Karp/// Fax : (+61) (3) 819 5580 //// UUCP : uunet!bacchus.esa.oz.au!robi \XXX/ I just compiled xrn6-13 myself on my DN3500. It doesn't sound like your problem is with xrn, but rather with your nntp server/news software. 503 is an nntp response code from the server. In the RFC, it is listed as "program fault - command not executed". HTH. - Woody
robi@bacchus.esa.oz.au (RoBeRt KaRp) (12/07/90)
In robi@bacchus.esa.oz's article <852@bacchus.esa.oz.au> they write: : I am trying to install nntp (1.5.10) on an apollo DN3500. We are using the : bsd environment. I have compiled up both the nntp server and : xrn (6.13) to use as the client, both compile and install OK. However, : when I run xrn, I get the following error message: : : Unexpected response code from bacchus news server: 503 : Failed to reconnect to the NNTP server (handle_response), sleeping... : : Are there some config. points I may have missed, or any ideas at : all ? : OK, I got some help on this, thanks to chytil@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at. What I found is that if nntp uses the syslog calls, it calls "openlog()" with the first argument as "nntpd" rather than "nntp". I don't know why this caused it not to work and I only stumbled accross it because I wanted to get the errors logged. - Robi -- INTERNET: robi@bacchus.esa.oz.au ACSnet: robi@bacchus.esa.oz Tel : (+61) (3) 819 4554 Robert Karp/// Fax : (+61) (3) 819 5580 //// UUCP : uunet!bacchus.esa.oz.au!robi \XXX/