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Mark

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Feb 16, 2011, 5:29:31 AM2/16/11
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Hamster classic 2.1.0.11

I get intermittant failures to connect to my news server. This is not
normally a problem. However if hamster fails to post a news item then
it gives us and does not ever retry. How can I get hamster to attempt
to repost if it has failed?
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Lu Wei

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Feb 18, 2011, 12:40:46 AM2/18/11
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Mark wrote on 2011-2-16 18:29:
> Hamster classic 2.1.0.11
>
> I get intermittant failures to connect to my news server. This is not
> normally a problem. However if hamster fails to post a news item then
> it gives us and does not ever retry. How can I get hamster to attempt
> to repost if it has failed?

There may be a script to move files in News.err to News.out
periodically. I usually do it manually according to error report in
internal.misc.

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Mark

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Feb 18, 2011, 4:32:40 AM2/18/11
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:40:46 +0800, Lu Wei <luwe...@address.invalid>
wrote:

Would moving the files manually back to News.out mean it would
reattempt the post? Is it possible to get it to retry automatically?
I don't know much about Hamster scripts.

Wolfgang Jäth

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Feb 18, 2011, 5:40:21 AM2/18/11
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Am 18.02.2011 10:32, schrieb Mark:
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>>> I get intermittant failures to connect to my news server. This is not
>>> normally a problem. However if hamster fails to post a news item then
>>> it gives us and does not ever retry. How can I get hamster to attempt
>>> to repost if it has failed?
>>
>>There may be a script to move files in News.err to News.out
>>periodically. I usually do it manually according to error report in
>>internal.misc.

Me too; it happens too seldom für writing a script (and furthermore,
mostly I do want to know why <g>). Hint: I've set a link to the news.out
directory right into the news.err directory, so I can move those files
back by simply drawing them with the mouse.

> Would moving the files manually back to News.out mean it would
> reattempt the post?

Yes.

> Is it possible to get it to retry automatically?
> I don't know much about Hamster scripts.

I've never tried, but it should be possible to detour news.err to
news.out. Try the following: Open hamster.ini, and search for a
paragraph named '[directories]'. If it doesn't exist (which I guess),
create it. Insert an entry

news.err=groups/news.out

If thhs pragraph does already exist, /and/ there's an entry
'news.out=<something>', you need to replace above 'groups/news.out' with
that '<something>'.

As I said, I'm not absolutely sure whether it'll work properly. Maybe it
might show some side effects. I'm especially afraid of dupes. In this
case, you indeed need a script. But that would be no big deal, too.

Wolfgang
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