jbishop
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Earthlink news server stalls w/RH4.0
Hi,
My ISP is Earthlink, and I am having trouble downloading news after I upgraded to RedHat 4.0. Earthlink provides an NNTP server so normally I use Netscape and give it the name of the server.
After I upgraded to RedHat 4.0 Netscape will stall when a choose a newsgroup to peruse, although it is able to determine the number of messages available. This looks just like gridlock to me, except when I use W95 to do this everything works fine. So, of course this makes me think that I have not setup my Linux system correctly.
I did start innd and sendmail, just in case, but that didn't have any effect. Everything else, web browsing and e-mail works fine.
This is a repost of a previous question, titled "news", but with a more descriptive title. Also, I have upgraded it to "hard".
Thanks in advance for your help
My ISP is Earthlink, and I am having trouble downloading news after I upgraded to RedHat 4.0. Earthlink provides an NNTP server so normally I use Netscape and give it the name of the server.
After I upgraded to RedHat 4.0 Netscape will stall when a choose a newsgroup to peruse, although it is able to determine the number of messages available. This looks just like gridlock to me, except when I use W95 to do this everything works fine. So, of course this makes me think that I have not setup my Linux system correctly.
I did start innd and sendmail, just in case, but that didn't have any effect. Everything else, web browsing and e-mail works fine.
This is a repost of a previous question, titled "news", but with a more descriptive title. Also, I have upgraded it to "hard".
Thanks in advance for your help
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I am using Netscape 3.0.1 and also have tried slrn. Both exhibit the same behavior, so it must be something in my setup.
Enabling innd was just grasping at straws. Recently, I reinstalled Slakware with 1.2.13 and everything works like a charm! So I must be misconfiguring RedHat 4.0 or the 2.0.18 kernel may have something wrong with it.
Enabling innd was just grasping at straws. Recently, I reinstalled Slakware with 1.2.13 and everything works like a charm! So I must be misconfiguring RedHat 4.0 or the 2.0.18 kernel may have something wrong with it.
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version of redhat4.0 and netscape 3.0 does news just fine.
(btw innd and sendmail have nothing to do with it. in fact, you want to disable innd, probably.)