On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless
that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
So I got interested and went investigating and I confess that I have
absolutely no idea where slrn configures the server.
I run a inn server on einstein - and I usually connect from einstein so
I assumed perhaps it was localhost - but then I tried from dirac and,
apart from having thousands of unread messages, that also works. But
einstein doesn't appear in .slrnrc on either machine.
So then I did an strace and grepped for einstein in every file it opened
- still nothing...
And yet I see this in the strace:
29838 write(1, "Connecting to host einstein.home"..., 50) = 50
So I'm at a complete loss - but by some magic, somewhere, slrn knows
where to connect and I don't know how but I bet that magic file has got
corrupted on your system...
Tim.
check this:
NNTPSERVER=einstein.home.woodall.me.uk
Perhaps that has got set somehow - or needs to be set to a specific
value to use the spool.
Tim.
