From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16582 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Debugging failed connection attempt. Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:35:09 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384887304 32104 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2013 18:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:55:04 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 19 19:55:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ViqS6-0005Xk-Cr for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:55:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViqS6-0002A8-1g for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:55:10 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-68-173-114-172.nyc.res.rr.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1384882510 14156 68.173.114.172 (19 Nov 2013 17:35:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:35:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:87709 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:55:08 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16582 Archived-At: My old ISP has dropped shell support, so I've moved to a new ISP. I've been connecting to news using nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet and thought I should only need to change the host information: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "new-alias" (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet) (nntp-never-echoes-commands t) (nntp-via-address "new-shell-host") (nntp-address "new-nntp-server") (nntp-record-commands t) (nntp-end-of-line "\n") (nntp-via-rlogin-command "ssh") (nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches ("-t" "-e" "none"))))) However, I always get an error when connecting. The " *nttpd*" buffer is empty, there is no *nntp-log* buffer (with or without a leading space). Additionally, if I run ps from the shell to see what command is running, it looks fine. I can even cut-and-paste that command and get dropped to a telnet prompt from which I can open a connection to "new-nntp-server". What are my options for debugging this? roland