The connection is being refused because the username/password used are incorrect (or not accepted). If it doesn't require a username/password to post then remove them from the config file: ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
HtH - Jon Carnes On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 20:27, Con Wieland wrote: > Hello > > I get the following error from the cron script accessing the news server > but I can telnet to port 119. Any ideas? I do not have direct access to > the news host. > > Your "cron" job on maillists.nac.uci.edu > /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news > > produced the following output: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? > main() > File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main > process_lists(lock) > File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 148, in process_lists > conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) > File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup > password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD) > File "/home/users/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 111, in > __init__ > self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port)) > socket.error: (146, 'Connection refused') > > Thanks > Con Wieland > UC Irvine > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org