Re: [pimppa-users] Beginners Problems

[Igor W. <iwr...@us...>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Karsten Prey wrote:

> Hello,
> despite the quietness on this mailing list, can somebody please help.
> I have just set up pimppa with the example newsgroup of alt.binaries
> pictures.cartoons. Everything looks fine so far only pleech doesn't
> download anything.

To me, this looks like "suck" that pimppa uses for news
leeching and your news server do not like each other. You
perhaps might be able to affect this by reading "man suck"
and changing the values P_SUCKOPTS_HEADER and P_SUCKOPTS_BODY
in src/pimppa.h and recompiling. I'm not certain from
your debug output whether the actual failure is in
header download or body download phase or both. You might for
example try to remove the '-n' option from P_SUCKOPTS_HEADER
and recompile. Or maybe adding '-Z' to either might help. Note
that I'm only guessing here, I haven't seen this previously
and I don't know what the real problem is. If you can
download messages using "suck" (it can be used separately too)
with your newsserver, then its probably the way pimppa uses it
that is wrong and I really should fix it, if not, then the
problem is suck-specific and should be reported to the
author of suck.

Hope this helps any.


Igor