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From: robi@bacchus.esa.oz.au (RoBeRt KaRp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: nntp & xrn on DN 3500, trouble...
Summary: xrn & nntp, now working
Message-ID: <858@bacchus.esa.oz.au>
Date: 7 Dec 90 03:31:45 GMT
References: <852@bacchus.esa.oz.au>
Reply-To: robi@bacchus.esa.oz.au (RoBeRt KaRp)
Followup-To: comp.sys.apollo
Organization: Expert Solutions Australia
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In robi@bacchus.esa.oz's article <852@bacchus.esa.oz.au> they write:
: I am trying to install nntp (1.5.10) on an apollo DN3500. We are using the
: bsd environment. I have compiled up both the nntp server and
: xrn (6.13) to use as the client, both compile and install OK. However,
: when I run xrn, I get the following error message:
: 
: Unexpected response code from bacchus news server: 503
: Failed to reconnect to the NNTP server (handle_response), sleeping...
: 
: Are there some config. points I may have missed, or any ideas at
: all ?
: 

OK, I got some help on this, thanks to chytil@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at. What I
found is that if nntp uses the syslog calls, it calls "openlog()" with
the first argument as "nntpd" rather than "nntp". I don't know why this
caused it not to work and I only stumbled accross it because I wanted to
get the errors logged.

	- Robi
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