On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:30:44AM +0800, wenpin cui wrote: > hi, all, > > I want to read some newsgroup so emerged net-nntp/slrn. > > Then I uncompressed "/usr/share/doc/slrn-0.9.9_p1/slrn.rc.bz2" and modify > username/hostname/realname, then saved as $HOME/.slrnrc. > > After that, I run > > wenpincui@Gentoo ~ $ slrn --create -h news.newsgroup.com.hk > slrn 0.9.9p1 > > Loading /usr/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl > Reading startup file /home/wenpincui/.slrnrc.***Warning: Unable to > find a unique fully-qualified host name. > slrn will not generate any Message-IDs. > Please note that the "hostname" setting does not affect > this; > see the "slrn reference manual" for details. > > Using newsrc file /home/wenpincui/.jnewsrc for server > news.newsgroup.com.hk. > Connecting to host news.newsgroup.com.hk ... > Unable to make connection. Giving up. > > Run-Time Error > slrn fatal error: > Failed to initialize server. > > My question is: > Am I using slrn correctly? > If so, maybe it's resulted by damn firewall, I have to give up. > > -- > > Best regards > Wenpin Cui (???????? > Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PRC > Tel: +86-0571-86726288 ext:8095 >
Wenpin, make sure you have the nnrpaccess line in there, if your server requires password: nnrpaccess "your.news.server.com" "username" "password" Also, make sure you set the NNTPSERVER environment variable so slrn knows what server to connect to. Have you set that variable yet? Terry
