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Newslink Issue

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From: kyonshi@VERT (kyonshi)
To: alt.bbs.synchronet
Subject: Newslink Issue
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 by: kyonshi - Thu, 4 Jan 2024 10:30 UTC

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Hello,

I want to connect a few chosen newsgroups to my newly installed
Synchronet BBS. And I can access the NNTP server via tin, and it shows
all the groups I have defined. What it doesn't do is fetch articles from
the external server I have defined in newslink.cfg.

I also can't seem to find event logs that concern newslink at all. Where
exactly are those located?

Thanks
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
� Synchronet � Vertrauen � Home of Synchronet � [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net

Re: Newslink Issue

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From: kyonshi@VERT (kyonshi)
To: alt.bbs.synchronet
Subject: Re: Newslink Issue
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 by: kyonshi - Thu, 4 Jan 2024 13:16 UTC

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

On 1/4/2024 11:30 AM, kyonshi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to connect a few chosen newsgroups to my newly installed
> Synchronet BBS. And I can access the NNTP server via tin, and it shows
> all the groups I have defined. What it doesn't do is fetch articles from
> the external server I have defined in newslink.cfg.
>
> I also can't seem to find event logs that concern newslink at all. Where
> exactly are those located?
>
> Thanks

Well, the question is also: do I need a feed from another server or is a
user account enough?
As Synchronet seems to behave like a full server I guess I would need a
feed?
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
� Synchronet � Vertrauen � Home of Synchronet � [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net

Re: Newslink Issue

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From: mro@VERT/BBSESINF (MRO)
To: kyonshi
Subject: Re: Newslink Issue
Message-ID: <6596C2F1.9733.sync@bbses.info>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 08:38:41 -0600
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 by: MRO - Thu, 4 Jan 2024 14:38 UTC

Re: Re: Newslink Issue
By: kyonshi to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Jan 04 2024 02:16 pm

>
> > Thanks
>
> Well, the question is also: do I need a feed from another server or is a
> user account enough?
> As Synchronet seems to behave like a full server I guess I would need a
> feed?

you mean you want access to the usenet backbone? vert does not carry the usenet backbone.

You would need to put a server and username and password into your newslink cfg file. You can then assign those usenet msg areas to areas you created on your
bbs

I use astraweb

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■ Synchronet ■ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::

Re: Newslink Issue

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From: kyonshi@VERT (kyonshi)
To: alt.bbs.synchronet
Subject: Re: Newslink Issue
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 by: kyonshi - Thu, 4 Jan 2024 14:59 UTC

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

On 1/4/2024 3:38 PM, MRO wrote:

> you mean you want access to the usenet backbone? vert does not carry the usenet backbone.
>
> You would need to put a server and username and password into your newslink cfg file. You can then assign those usenet msg areas to areas you created on your
> bbs
>
> I use astraweb

I have configured the newslink.cfg file, but I used a user account for
my server. Do I need to peer with another usenet server to be able to
use it? (yes, the backbone, I am trying to access another nntp-server in
this case)

Basically I think I did everything from the newslink.txt file in docs
(also the one in the wiki), I created the message area on the BBS, I
configured the newslink.cfg file to include both the name of the server
I want to connect with (I tried two different ones, right now
eternal-september.org is in there) and gave my user credentials. I also
created the entries for the message areas in the .cfg file, set the flag
behind them to i, and removed the DISABLED from the beginning of the file.
I touched newslink.now in the DATA folder and... nothing happens.
I can access the newsgroups locally with tin and post on them, but they
don't fetch articles from other servers.
And I don't really know why they don't.
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
� Synchronet � Vertrauen � Home of Synchronet � [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net

Re: Newslink Issue

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From: kyonshi@VERT (kyonshi)
To: alt.bbs.synchronet
Subject: Re: Newslink Issue
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 by: kyonshi - Thu, 4 Jan 2024 20:39 UTC

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

On 1/4/2024 3:38 PM, MRO wrote:
> To: kyonshi
> Re: Re: Newslink Issue
> By: kyonshi to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Jan 04 2024 02:16 pm
>
> >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Well, the question is also: do I need a feed from another server or is a
> > user account enough?
> > As Synchronet seems to behave like a full server I guess I would need a
> > feed?
>
> you mean you want access to the usenet backbone? vert does not carry the usenet backbone.
>
> You would need to put a server and username and password into your newslink cfg file. You can then assign those usenet msg areas to areas you created on your
> bbs
>
> I use astraweb
>
> ---
> � Synchronet � ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
> --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
> * Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net

ah ok, I figured it out. I had a mistake in my internal codes in the
newslink.cfg
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
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Re: Newslink Issue

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From: mro@VERT/BBSESINF (MRO)
To: kyonshi
Subject: Re: Newslink Issue
Message-ID: <65982834.9736.sync@bbses.info>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 10:03:00 -0600
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 by: MRO - Fri, 5 Jan 2024 16:03 UTC

Re: Re: Newslink Issue
By: kyonshi to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Jan 04 2024 03:59 pm

> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
>
> On 1/4/2024 3:38 PM, MRO wrote:
>
> > you mean you want access to the usenet backbone? vert does not carry the
> > usenet backbone.
>
> > You would need to put a server and username and password into your
> > newslink cfg file. You can then assign those usenet msg areas to areas
> > you created on your
> > bbs
>
> > I use astraweb
>
> I have configured the newslink.cfg file, but I used a user account for
> my server. Do I need to peer with another usenet server to be able to
> use it? (yes, the backbone, I am trying to access another nntp-server in
> this case)
>

set up the areas to dump into your msg subs.
> I touched newslink.now in the DATA folder and... nothing happens.
> I can access the newsgroups locally with tin and post on them, but they
> don't fetch articles from other servers.
> And I don't really know why they don't.

use jsexec to run them and look at the error msgs.
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Re: Newslink Issue

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From: kyonshi@VERT (kyonshi)
To: alt.bbs.synchronet
Subject: Re: Newslink Issue
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 by: kyonshi - Fri, 5 Jan 2024 18:22 UTC

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

On 1/5/2024 5:03 PM, MRO wrote:

> set up the areas to dump into your msg subs.
> > I touched newslink.now in the DATA folder and... nothing happens.
> > I can access the newsgroups locally with tin and post on them, but they
> > don't fetch articles from other servers.
> > And I don't really know why they don't.
>
> use jsexec to run them and look at the error msgs.
> ---

I did already solve this. Right now I am wondering how to run a
secondary newslink.cfg file
sorry for asking all these questions, but I am new at all this
--- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114
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Re: Newslink Issue

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From: digital.man@VERT (Digital Man)
To: kyonshi
Subject: Re: Newslink Issue
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 15:07:47 -0800
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 by: Digital Man - Fri, 5 Jan 2024 23:07 UTC

Re: Re: Newslink Issue
By: kyonshi to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Jan 05 2024 07:22 pm

> I did already solve this. Right now I am wondering how to run a
> secondary newslink.cfg file

You would create a new file (e.g. newslink2.cfg, but call it whatever you like) and pass it on the command-line to newslink.js.
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