[Pan-devel] Re: PAN 0.93: newsgroups.ynm

[Motor]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:25:45 +0100, Motor wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:05:00 -0500, Charles Kerr wrote:
> 
>> Motor wrote:
>>> I'm getting this message when starting pan 0.93
>>> 
>>>    (groups.cc:232:load_group_permissions) Permission for 0000000.0000
>>>    needs to be one of 'y', 'n', or 'm'.
>>> 
>>> In the ~/.pan2/newsgroups.ynm file, the first entry is:
>>> 
>>>    0000000.0000:alt.religion.rasta-khan:n
>>> 
>>> It looks like the group name has a colon in it, and pan is just taking
>>> anything after the first colon as the posting permission.
>> 
>> The proper groupname is alt.religion.rasta-khan ... looks like somehow
>> your ynm file's gotten corrupted?
>> 
>> Are there other suspicious groups about?
> 
> There aren't any other lines like that. I edited the file to remove
> "0000000.0000:", and now pan loads with no complaints. A quick skim
> through the file doesn't show up anything weird either.

Another bit of info:

I deleted from ~/.pan2:

newsgroups.dsc  newsgroups.ynm  newsrc-2  newsrc-5 newsgroups.xov newsrc-1
newsrc-3

reran pan 0.93, edited the newservers and let it redownload all the groups
from the servers. When it had finished:

This line was back:

   0000000.0000:alt.religion.rasta-khan:n

in newsgroups.ynm

my servers.xml looks like this (I've edited the usenet2.ath.cx to remove
my user/password):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <server-properties>
  <server id="1">
    <host>nntp.aoie.org</host>
    <port>119</port>
    <username></username>
    <password></password>
    <expire-articles-n-days-old>0</expire-articles-n-days-old>
    <connection-limit>4</connection-limit>
  </server>
  <server id="2">
    <host>usenet2.ath.cx</host>
    <port>119</port>
    <username>xxxx</username>
    <password>xxxxx</password>
    <expire-articles-n-days-old>0</expire-articles-n-days-old>
    <connection-limit>4</connection-limit>
  </server>
  <server id="3">
    <host>freebin.readnews.com</host>
    <port>119</port>
    <username></username>
    <password></password>
    <expire-articles-n-days-old>31</expire-articles-n-days-old>
    <connection-limit>2</connection-limit>
  </server>
  <server id="5">
    <host>news.gmane.org</host>
    <port>119</port>
    <username></username>
    <password></password>
    <expire-articles-n-days-old>0</expire-articles-n-days-old>
    <connection-limit>4</connection-limit>
  </server>
</server-properties>

A grep in the ~/.pan2 directory for ".rasta-khan" doesn't show any
instances with 0000000.0000 added on the front (other than
newsgroups.ynm)... maybe that suggests that pan is corrupting things
somehow before storing it in newsgroups.ynm?