[Mailman-Users] error from news server

[Jon Carnes]

The connection is being refused because the username/password used are
incorrect (or not accepted).  If it doesn't require a username/password
to post then remove them from the config file:
  ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

HtH - Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 20:27, Con Wieland wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I get the following error from the cron script accessing the news server 
> but I can telnet to port 119. Any ideas? I do not have direct access to 
> the news host.
> 
> Your "cron" job on maillists.nac.uci.edu
> /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news
> 
> produced the following output:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
>      main()
>    File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
>      process_lists(lock)
>    File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 148, in process_lists
>      conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist)
>    File "/home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup
>      password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD)
>    File "/home/users/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 111, in 
> __init__
>      self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
> socket.error: (146, 'Connection refused')
> 
> Thanks
> Con Wieland
> UC Irvine
> 
> 
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