Subj : Newslink Help
To   : Patch
From : Mrproper
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 05:50 pm

  Re: Newslink Help
  By: Patch to All on Sat Oct 01 2005 11:46:00

 > I'm hoping someone can assist me with my current road-block in setting up th
 > BBS.
 > 
 > I'm trying to get the 'Newslink' working, I've read the docs, followed the
 > instructions exactly as it's been written.  When I force a callout I see tha
 > the three areas that I've configured have messages, but ultimately nothing i
 > imported or exported.
 > 
 > I've gotten the message base definition done, using the internal code prefix
 > of USENET_.
 > 
 > The message sub-boards that I am trying to include are as follows:
 > 
 > alt.allsysop
 > alt.bbs.allsysop
 > alt.anime.tenchi-muyo
 > 
 > The internal code for each of these, respectively is as follows:
 > 
 > USENET_ALLSYS
 > USENET_BBS-ALL
 > USENET_TENCHI
 > 
 > The long, and short name for each of these areas is the alt.<address> name.
 > For example, alt.bbs.allsysop is for USENET_BBS-ALL.
 > 
 > Internet is turned on in the Network section for all three areas.
 > 
 > My 'AREA' portion of newslink.cfg has the following information:
 > 
 > AREA USENET_BBS-ALL alt.bbs.allsysop nI
 > AREA USENET_ALLSYSOP alt.allsysop nI
 > AREA USENET_TENCHI alt.anime.tenchi-muyo nI
 > 
 > When I force a call out to NEWSLINK, I can see that there are message
 > pointers for all three areas, for example:
 > 
 > alt.anime.tenchi-muyo import ptr:20059, first_msg: 19792, last_msg: 20059
 > 
 > However, the last line of the connection log shows:
 > Synchronet NewsLink 1.83 session complete (0 exported, 0 imported)
 > 
 > And there's nothing in the message areas when I do a new message scan, and
 > each of the files in the Data director for those message areas contain 0
 > bytes.
 > 
 > So what am I doing wrong, can anyone help me set these up?!?  Please let me
 > know if I left any information out that may be neccessary for assistance.
 > 

That all looks correct to me.. when your first setup, the pointers were reset
to the last read pointer on your newsgroup server, there just has'nt been any
new messages to update the groups with.


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