[Mailman-Users] gate_news raising NNTPProtocolError exceptions

[Stuart Bishop]

Hi.

I'm trying to setup an email feed of a couple of large Usenet news 
groups.
Articles seem to be flowing happily, although I'm getting a dozen or
so exceptions each day. It may be related to the number of aricles being
retrieved, as I get these exceptions everytime gate_news is run until
I perform a catchup on the news group. I was also getting the exceptions
much more often until I started running gate_news every 60 seconds 
instead
of once every five minutes.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

My client is a NetBSD box running Python 2.1.1 and Mailman 2.0.6.
The upstream news server is a DNews server, or a NetCache (which talks
to the same DNews server) - same problem with both.

On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 06:14  PM, Cron Daemon wrote:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
>     process_lists(lock)
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 179, in process_lists
>     poll_newsgroup(mlist, conn, start, last+1, glock)
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 104, in poll_newsgroup
>     body = conn.body(`num`)[3]
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 346, in body
>     return self.artcmd('BODY ' + id)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 322, in artcmd
>     resp, list = self.longcmd(line)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 215, in 
> longcmd
>     return self.getlongresp()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 194, in 
> getlongresp
>     resp = self.getresp()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 188, in 
> getresp
>     raise NNTPProtocolError(resp)
> Mailman.pythonlib.nntplib.NNTPProtocolError: .
>
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Stuart Bishop <zen at shangri-la.dropbear.id.au>
http://shangri-la.dropbear.id.au/