[Mailman-Users] gate_news -crontab error

[Jonas Meurer]

Hey ho,
I try to use the gate-news-function of mailman, but I get an error-message
every time cron execs the '/usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news'
command:

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X-From_: mailman at server.server0.de  Sat Nov 24 13:38:15 2001
From: root at server.server0.de (Cron Daemon)
To: mailman at server.server0.de
Subject: Cron <mailman at server> /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/mailman>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mailman>

Traceback (innermost 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 148, in process_lists
    conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist)
  File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup
    password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 111, in __init__
    self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
socket.error: (110, 'Connection timed out')
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How can I fix this bug?

Bye
 Jonas

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