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<font size=3>At 06:23 PM 10/10/99 -0700, Michael Ghens wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Tried a news gateway test. This is the
error:<br>
<br>
Traceback (innermost last):<br>
File "/home/other/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in
?<br>
main()<br>
File "/home/other/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 79, in
main<br>
r,c,first,last,n =
conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)<br>
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 208, in
group<br>
resp = self.shortcmd('GROUP ' + name)<br>
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 158, in
shortcmd<br>
return self.getresp()<br>
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 134, in
getresp<br>
raise error_perm, resp<br>
nntplib.error_perm: 500 "GROUP" not implemented; try
"help".<br>
<br>
<br>
Any sugguestions?</font></blockquote><br>
Are you running INN on the news server? Is the mailman machine
defined as<br>
a feed host, rather than a reader host? If so, it won't work
without a patch. Python's<br>
nntp library can't handle INN right; there have been a couple of patches
suggested<br>
in the mailman developers list after I found the trouble; I have a one
line patch that<br>
does solve the problem. However, if you use python in house for
other news server<br>
functions, *might*, although I doubt it, cause side effects if your
software cares what<br>
the machine banner says, and you ever use it with non inn
software...<br>
<br>
If you don't know the answer to the questions, telnet to your news
server's port<br>
119 from the mailman server.<br>
<br>
Does it say "200 somehostname InterNetNews server INN x.x
adatestring ready"<br>
or does it say "200 somehostname InterNetNews NNRP server INN x.x
adatestring etc"<br>
<br>
If it says the former, you have the problem, and need to patch
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