[gnu.emacs.gnus] GNUS

rowland@CS.PURDUE.EDU (Mark Rowland) (09/22/89)

   I have just installed GNUS 3.12 on our system.  It has been reported
that the windowing mechanism becomes confused whenever ctr-d is used
to read a digest. This is a small annoyance, but one we would like to fix.
I have heard that others have had the same problem. Could you send 
me a patch or some advice. Thank you for your time and effort.

                          Sincerely,

                                    Mark Rowland

mitch@HQ.AF.MIL (Mitch..Wright) (01/17/90)

Greetings!

I/We need some help getting GNUS to read news via nntp.  All of the
appropriate variables seem to be set, and everything _seems_ to go smoothly.
I get the newsgroups buffer, but when I select a group to read, it goes off
like it is going to read the file, and then it does the :

	Checking Bogus Newsgroups...done

and comes back to the newsgroup buffer as if everything was OK.  I tend to
think that there is a permission problem, but I don't know what it is.  The
"News hosts" works just fine, but of course it doesn't need to do the nntp
stuff. 

I guess all that is left to say is ... HELP!

 ..mitch

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maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) (01/18/90)

On 17 Jan 90 15:10:56 GMT, mitch@HQ.AF.MIL (Mitch..Wright) said:

Mitch> I/We need some help getting GNUS to read news via nntp.  All of
Mitch> the appropriate variables seem to be set, and everything
Mitch> _seems_ to go smoothly.  I get the newsgroups buffer, but when
Mitch> I select a group to read, it goes off like it is going to read
Mitch> the file, and then it does the :

Mitch> 	Checking Bogus Newsgroups...done

Mitch> and comes back to the newsgroup buffer as if everything was OK.
Mitch> I tend to think that there is a permission problem, but I don't
Mitch> know what it is.  The "News hosts" works just fine, but of
Mitch> course it doesn't need to do the nntp stuff.

You are right about it being a permission problem, though its sure
a strange error behavior.  Check the nntp_access file on your server
system (probably in a /usr/local/lib/news directory, but it may be
elsewhere).  You need to have a line like

          ralph  READ  POST

in order to be able to read the news from the system named ralph.
You may find that you instead need the full domain name of the
"ralph" system as in

          ralph.dfrf.nasa.gov  READ POST

Seems like this should be unnecessary, but our installation
doesn't work without it.

Probably your system is not mentioned at all in the nntp_access file,
or possibly you didn't specify the full domain name and your
installation requires it (or vice versa).





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