Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!gih900 From: gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Having problems setting up a decnet feed Message-ID: <867.25470814@csc.anu.oz> Date: 26 Oct 89 13:35:14 GMT References: Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University Lines: 23 In article , BRIAN@UOFT02.BITNET (Brian Nelson) writes: > I've been trying to set up a decnet feed to another site, and not having > much luck. After recompiling nntp_feed with debugging set to 1, I obtain > the following messages when trying it. Does anyone have an idea what I have > done wrong? The server machine is running vms 5.2, news 5.8a and the client > node is running vms 5.1-1 with news 5.8a. The NEWS_CLIENT program works from > from either node. There is a bug in NNTP_FEED (well not really a bug, more a change which was not made by me): /* remove this line sprintf(netobj,"%s::\"NEWS=\"",node); */ /* changed code */ sprintf(netobj,"%s::\"TASK=NNTP\"",node); return(sys$assign(c$dsc(netobj),&net_chan,0,0) & 1); It is trying to connect to a different object! Geoff Huston (needless to say this will be in the next patch set (5.9B)