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
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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?
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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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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.
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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

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* 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
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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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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.
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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
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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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