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xrn and in.nntpd ... can't post
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin J. Cummings )
Sat Mar 11 01:06:43 1995
From: cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us (Kevin J. Cummings )
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 20:45:12 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-config@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi, I posted this to comp.os.linux.setup and got no answers after a week.
(of course the news feed to my news provider got flaky right after I posted
it so if there was a response, I must have missed it!)
Any responses about what in.nntpd is complaining about will be appreciated!
Forwarded message:
> ------ Forwarded Article <1995Mar3.224441.1980@kjc386.framingham.ma.us>
> ------ From cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us (Kevin J. Cummings (Sys Adm))
>
> I just installed nntp and xrn on my machine. Its great for reading news!
> Much better than trn! But I can't post articles from it (thus I am reduced
> to using trn to post this B^( xrn is just tripping over something wrong
> with my nntp configuration. When I telnet to my nntp port as localhost,
> it says:
>
> 201 kjc386 NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.11t (16 November 1991) ready at Fri Mar 3 22:33:44 1995 (no posting).
>
> When I use my machine name (kjc386) it says:
>
> 201 kjc386 NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.11t (16 November 1991) ready at Fri Mar 3 22:35:31 1995 (posting OK).
>
> OK. When I issue the POST command, it says:
>
> 441 Cannot create temporary file.
> 441 86.framingham.ma.us post
>
> Now, why should there be a difference between connecting to kjc386 and
> localhost? And WHERE can't it create a temporary file???? (And why doesn't
> it tell me where so I can fix it!)
>
> Here are the snipets from my hosts file:
>
> 199.26.191.233 kjc386.framingham.ma.us kjc386
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> and nntp_access file:
>
> default read no
> kjc386 read post
> kjc386.framingham.ma.us read post
> localhost read post
>
> Oh yeah, before I forget, xrn is version 7.01-beta.10 from sunsite, and
> in.nttpd is from the 2.01 slackware distribution. Both from sunsite.unc.edu
> (at one time or another).
>
> ------ End of Forwarded Article
Also, in case it makes a difference, I'm running Linux 1.1.52.
