From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 11:10:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03983 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:10:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.182.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA03600 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:09:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id CAA03304; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 02:07:34 +0700 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01734; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:23:35 +0700 (TSK) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199703211723.AAA01734@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: cannot make suck work To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:23:34 +0700 (TSK) Cc: graphite@taurus.bekkoame.or.jp Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. I have installed suck from the ports collection of FreeBSD 2.1.6 I created the /usr/local/etc/sucknewsrc file which looks like this alt.fan.tolkien -1 rec.arts.books.tolkien -1 relcom.education -1 relcom.fido.ru.unix -1 Then I ran the following script: ---- cut here ------- #!/bin/sh # # Download news from news.tomsk.su suck news.tomsk.su -dt /var/news/in.coming/tmp -dm /var/news/in.coming \ -dd /usr/local/etc/ -br batchfile ---- cut here ------- When I run this script I get the message that there are no articles on news.tomsk.su: vas# sux Official host name: mpeks.tomsk.su Alias news.tomsk.su Address: 193.124.182.17 Address: 193.124.185.19 Connected to mpeks.tomsk.su 200 mpeks.tomsk.su InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4 22-Dec-93 ready (posting ok) . 200 mpeks.tomsk.su InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4 22-Dec-93 ready (posting ok) . 0 Articles to download, 0 dupes removed Processing History File, experimental version Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.00 seconds Processed history, 0 dupes removed Total Articles to Download: 0 No articles. Closed connection to mpeks.tomsk.su vas# However when I use "tin -r" to read the news I can see that in fact there are articles in the aforementioned newsgroups. What can be wrong? Why cannot suck get those articles? It does create /var/news/in.coming/tmp/suck.newrc file which looks like this: alt.fan.tolkien 6515 rec.arts.books.tolkien 8257 relcom.education 1507 relcom.fido.ru.unix 13426 Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm