If the news server is too busy or down, the following error is generated to cron (not nice)! This should just fail gracefully, be logged and be tried again later at the next cron run.

Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 78, in main conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 70, in __init__ self.sock.connect(self.host, self.port) socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused')

-- Richard Ellerbrock richarde@eskom.co.za