[PLUG] Any slrn Gurus Here?

[chris (fool) mccraw]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 16:14, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   I've not used slrn to access Usenet since I've upgraded this system. When
> I try to invoke it, the attempt fails:
>
> slrn 0.9.9p1
>
> Loading /usr/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
> Reading startup file /home/rshepard/.slrnrc.
> Using newsrc file /home/rshepard/.jnewsrc for server
> news.my_news_server.com.
> Connecting to host news.my_news_server.com ...
> Failed to resolve news.my_news_server.com
>
> Run-Time Error
> slrn fatal error:
> Failed to initialize server.
>
>   My problem is on the 4th line: there is no news.my_news_server.com in
> ~/.slrnrc, or any of the ~/.jnewsrc files. I cannot find where slrn is
> picking that up. It's not in slrn.sl, and it's not in any file I created.

how about /etc/nntpserver ?

you could also run slrn under strace (strace -s 64 slrn |less and
search for my_news_server) to see if you find that string anywhere.