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- From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Need help configuring xrn
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.200854.12706@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 20:08:54 GMT
- References: <32507@adm.brl.mil>
- Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News)
- Reply-To: mikey@sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com
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- In article <32507@adm.brl.mil>, fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.) writes:
- |> xrn -nntpServer enh.nist.gov
- |>
- |> I get ...
- |>
- |> connect: Connection refused
- |> giving up ...
- |> Thu Sep 10 08:38:11 1992: Failed to reconnect to the NNTP server (server_init), sleeping...
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- This is what xrn does when it can't connect to your news server.
- Your problem (so far) is with your NNTP server, not xrn.
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- |> So I just control C out ... also, no window ever appears,
- |> which makes me wonder if I need to modify config.h (what
- |> modifications are commonly used?? (besides DOMAIN_NAME)).
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- Xrn builds on SGI machines right out of the box, and doesn't bring up
- a window if it can't initially connect to the news server.
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