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Re: slrn broke after power failure

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On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Tim Woodall wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> 
>> Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
>> be trying to bypass it and access the server directly.  Unless
>> that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
>> 
>
> So I got interested and went investigating and I confess that I have
> absolutely no idea where slrn configures the server.
>
> I run a inn server on einstein - and I usually connect from einstein so
> I assumed perhaps it was localhost - but then I tried from dirac and,
> apart from having thousands of unread messages, that also works. But
> einstein doesn't appear in .slrnrc on either machine.
>
> So then I did an strace and grepped for einstein in every file it opened
> - still nothing...
>
> And yet I see this in the strace:
> 29838 write(1, "Connecting to host einstein.home"..., 50) = 50
>
> So I'm at a complete loss - but by some magic, somewhere, slrn knows
> where to connect and I don't know how but I bet that magic file has got
> corrupted on your system...
>
> Tim.
>
check this:
NNTPSERVER=einstein.home.woodall.me.uk

Perhaps that has got set somehow - or needs to be set to a specific
value to use the spool.

Tim.

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Re: slrn broke after power failure Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2022-04-18 22:00 +0200
  Re: slrn broke after power failure Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-19 15:30 +0200
    Re: slrn broke after power failure songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-04-19 17:10 +0200
  Re: slrn broke after power failure Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-04-19 18:10 +0200
    Re: slrn broke after power failure Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-04-19 18:20 +0200

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