Re: [Noffle-users] Noffle with tin

[Balas M. <ba...@tt...>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Jim Hague wrote:

> On 01-Jul-2004 Balas Mark wrote:
> > I tried it; tin gave me this answer:
> >
> > Reading config file...
> > release 20020311 ("Toxicity") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-2002 Iain Le
> >
> > Connecting to localhost...
> >
> > Leafnode 1.9.19, pleased to meet you!
>   ^^^^^^^^
>   Noffle != Leafnode.....

I suspected it, I just did not know how to get rid of it.

> Your (x)inetd is configured to run Leafnode, not Noffle (unless you want to use
> Leafnode, in which case you're asking the wrong list....). If you're using
> inetd, you need to replace the 'nntp' line there with
>
> nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/noffle -r
>
> (assuming your noffle executable is in /usr/local/bin). If it's xinetd you use,
> edit packages/redhat/noffle-xinetd and change 'disable = yes' to 'disable =
> no', and copy it to /etc/xinetd.d and remove any file there that runs leafnode.

I did it (which noffle said that the executable is in /usr/bin/noffle);
now tin connects to localhost, than gives the error message

   Connection to news server has timed out. Reconnect? (Y/n) Y

I guess I am overlooking something trivial again (because of my nearly
complete lack of experience). I do appreciate your patience.



Mark Balas