Re: Multiple news servers
From: Allen Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:06:30 -0700
In article <BSJK0YhtjTxO092yn@mozart.inet.co.th>,
brianj@mozart.inet.co.th (Brian Jackson) wrote:
>A few months back I posted here for help in setting up an alternate
>news server, and how I might use UQWK commands for creating the
>packet. We had a custom made script/front end on our server for
>building packets, but it only worked with the default local news
>server. The problem has become academic now, since the administrator
>has redone the script to allow it to be used with any news server
>which has been set by the NNTPSERVER setting.
>
>With a little bit of backing up and resetting the .newsrc file,
>everything on the server end seems to be working so that I can easily
>create a soup packet from the alternate server. However, when I try to
>import this into yarn, no articles are accepted. Presumably this is
>due to the article numbering system being out of whack with the newsrc
>file in the yarn directory. Is there any way around this, short of
>setting up a separate instance of yarn with separate configuration
>files? I notice that some groups have multiple ranges of article
>numbers in this newsrc file, but I'm a bit reluctant to monkey around
>with that.
Yarn's newsrc numbers are unique to yarn and should have nothing to do
with the news servers' article numbers. Look for your problem elsewhere.
Yarn should accept soup files from multiple servers with no problem. It
just rejects any message with a Message-ID that it already has (and tells
you it did so).
Are you *certain* you are using a different newsrc file for different
servers? I would recommend *not* copying the newsrc files around...
this is pretty error prone. Instead, use uqwk's -N parameter or
UQ_NRC_FILE variable to specify different files for different news servers
(e.g. uqwk +n +L -N.newsrc.$NNTPSERVER, or set the UQ_NRC_FILE var to a
different file wherever you set NNTPSERVER).
You say "no articles are accepted". Are there in fact articles in the
soup file? What exactly does import say?