Re: Lost News
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:35:16 -0700
In article <azy33cun8L5A092yn@swol.de>, rgriech@swol.de (Hardy Griech) wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:30:16 +1000, Paul Parker <paulparker@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> Upgraded to PC Yarn version 0.92 and Vsoup1.2.8
>>
>>
>> have lost newsgroups...
>>
>> Wants <?> an areas file, but they are not there.
>>
>> -----------
>> vsoup: connected to news server news.bigpond.com (getNews)
>> vsoup: 0 articles read
>> vsoup: 3 threads were connected successfully
>> vsoup: totally 456 bytes received, 51 bytes transmitted
>> vsoup: 4.6s elapsed, throughput 110 bytes/s
>> --------------
>>
>>
>> Have tried -a -c ....
>>
>> totally confused.
>:
>
>me too...
>
>What do you want to do? According to your posted directory structure I
>assume, you'd like to setup VSoup to operate with YarnIO!? Do you want
>to read news from nine news servers or is it enough for you to get news
>from a single news server?
>
>In the first case, you could do some debugging through starting the
>single tasks (e.g. 'yarnio RCVNEWS', 'yarnio SEND' etc). Post the
>stsmail.msg of a failed operation.
>
>In the second case use a simpler setup. If you'd post your
>requirements I will do my best to help you.
It is hard to tell what he means, but it sounds to me like he is
having problems setting up what newsgroups vsoup should get.
Paul, it would be helpful to know what you upgraded *from* and how you
went about it.