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  • NNTP Newslink Setup

    From Joe@VERT/FIREONTH to All on Fri Mar 24 13:04:03 2017
    Hi folks!

    I am trying to configure Newslink. I have success logging into the news server, it accepts username and password, recognizes it wants to look at alt.bbs.allsysop, it tells me there are 2606 messages there, but it never downloads them. I wrote a message in the area and it did send it to the server.

    Any ideas on what I may be missing?

    Thanks!

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to Joe on Fri Mar 24 14:47:04 2017
    Re: NNTP Newslink Setup
    By: Joe to All on Fri Mar 24 2017 13:04:03

    alt.bbs.allsysop, it tells me there are 2606 messages there, but it never downloads them. I wrote a message in the area and it did send it to the

    IIRC it doesn't import old messages the first time it's run, but will import new messages as they are posted.

    You can run it from a shell or command prompt in your 'exec' directory like so, as a one-time thing to import the backlog of messages:

    jsexec newslink.js -ri

    Or possibly grab the last x messages like so:

    jsexec newslink.js -ix 250

    More info here:

    http://wiki.synchro.net/module:newslink

    And indeed you may want to look at available command line options including -ri and -ix before you run the command.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Joe on Fri Mar 24 14:28:32 2017
    Re: NNTP Newslink Setup
    By: Joe to All on Fri Mar 24 2017 01:04 pm

    Hi folks!

    I am trying to configure Newslink. I have success logging into the news server, it accepts username and password, recognizes it wants to look at alt.bbs.allsysop, it tells me there are 2606 messages there, but it never downloads them. I wrote a message in the area and it did send it to the server.

    Any ideas on what I may be missing?

    Examine the log output closely and it should indicate what's going on. You can also enable debug-level (more verbose) log output by adding "debug" to your ctrl/newslink.cfg file or '-d' to the newslink command-line.

    digital man

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  • From Joe@VERT/FIREONTH to echicken on Fri Mar 24 21:16:13 2017
    Re: NNTP Newslink Setup
    By: echicken to Joe on Fri Mar 24 2017 02:47 pm

    IIRC it doesn't import old messages the first time it's run, but will import new messages as they are posted.

    You can run it from a shell or command prompt in your 'exec' directory like so, as a one-time thing to import the backlog of messages:

    jsexec newslink.js -ri

    Thanks for all of the great info. I will try running jsexec.

    Joe

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  • From Joe@VERT/FIREONTH to Digital Man on Fri Mar 24 21:18:16 2017
    Re: NNTP Newslink Setup
    By: Digital Man to Joe on Fri Mar 24 2017 02:28 pm

    Examine the log output closely and it should indicate what's going on. You your ctrl/newslink.cfg file or '-d' to the newslink command-line.

    Great info. Thanks!

    Joe

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