HELP!! Someone Must Know the Answer!!

HELP!! Someone Must Know the Answer!!

[Jake Colman]

I have posted the following problem several times under several subject
headings but have not gotton any replies.  Some of this may be because of
some intermitten problems I am having getting my posts to actually hit the
lists and part of it may be that my messages are simply being missed.  I
_know_ that people out here know how to do this.  SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!

My access to the news server will only work if done via some other machine
acting as a conduit.

        newjersey is the system where I run XEmacs
        delaware is the system to act as the conduit
        news.globix.net is the system which hosts the news server

How do I set up my primary select method to make this work?  I have tried two
different forms of select method:

      '(nntp "Globix"
             (nntp-address "delaware")
             (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
             (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin)
             (nntp-rlogin-parameters "telnet" "news.globix.net" "nntp")

      '(nntp "Globix"
             (nntp-address "delaware")
             (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
             (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-telnet)
             (nntp-telnet-parameters "telnet" "-8" "news.globix.net" "nntp")

Shouldn't this work? 

PLEASE HELP!

-- 
Jake Colman                     

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Re: HELP!! Someone Must Know the Answer!!

[Kai Großjohann]

What you are showing should work.  I have this server, and it works
nicely:

/----
| ;;; Editing the server.
| ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.
| 
| (nntp "quimby"
|       (nntp-address "bonny")
|       (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh")
|       (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin)
|       (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
|       (nntp-rlogin-parameters
|        ("telnet" "quimby.gnus.org" "nntp")))
| 
\----

Looks a lot like your first variant, no?

You might wish to try to manually establish a connection to your news
server:

rsh -l USER delaware telnet news.globix.net nntp

Do you get a connection when you do this?

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

Re: HELP!! Someone Must Know the Answer!!

[Jake Colman]

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Sun spots....  That must be why I was having problems.  The examples I posted
most certainly did NOT work.  I cut and pasted an example from the gnus texi
docs, modified it accordingly, and now its working just fine.  Go figure.
This cost me a week of aggravation....

>>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    KG> What you are showing should work.  I have this server, and it works
    KG> nicely:

    KG> /---- | ;;; Editing the server.  | ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've
    KG> finished editing.  | | (nntp "quimby" | (nntp-address "bonny") |
    KG> (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh") | (nntp-open-connection-function
    KG> nntp-open-rlogin) | (nntp-end-of-line "\n") | (nntp-rlogin-parameters
    KG> | ("telnet" "quimby.gnus.org" "nntp"))) | \----

    KG> Looks a lot like your first variant, no?

    KG> You might wish to try to manually establish a connection to your news
    KG> server:

    KG> rsh -l USER delaware telnet news.globix.net nntp

    KG> Do you get a connection when you do this?

    KG> kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music.

-- 
Jake Colman                     

Principia Partners LLC                  Phone: (201) 946-0300
Harborside Financial Center               Fax: (201) 946-0320
902 Plaza II                           Beeper: (800) 928-4640
Jersey City, NJ 07311                  E-mail: colman@ppllc.com
                                       E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com
                                          web: http://www.ppllc.com

microsoft: "where do you want to go today?"
linux:     "where do you want to go tomorrow?"
BSD:       "are you guys coming, or what?"