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From: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTPXMIT Problem reading the file of articles to send
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.182155.21634@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 18:21:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.133033.24524@mach2.wlu.ca> <1991Jun5.172321.3359@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun6.030325.1664@uunet.uu.net>
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
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In article <1991Jun6.030325.1664@uunet.uu.net> revell@uunet.uu.net (James R Revell Jr) writes:
>henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>} derwin@mach2.WLU.CA (Daryl Erwin) writes:
>} >While trying to get NNTPXMIT to work yesterday, I found a problem
>} >with nntpxmit.c trying to read the file of articles to send.  What is
>} 
>} Use the F flag, not the f flag, in your sys-file entries.  See news(5).
>
>Seems odd to remind the author of features in his own code, but I
>believe the n flag is better for nntp links (equivalent of FI in
>bnews).  

I tried switching the sites I feed via NNTP from the F flag to the n flag
and all the articles started falling on the floor!  The files were being
created OK in news/out.going with the message-id as the second field.
But for some reason nntpxmit was reporting ihave_stats 0 offered 0 accepted 
0 rejected 0 failed.  A check with a site I feed confirmed it.

Any ideals?  I switched back to the F flag for now.  I am running Cnews
with NNTP 1.5.10.  The only non-standard patch is in nntpd for Paul Vixie's
msgid daemon.  I don't see how that would affect nntpxmit.



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