Description of problem: With the following line server "/home/boeckb/.local/share/slrnpull/news/gmane" ".local/share/slrn/jnewsrc-gmane" in my .slrnrc (via inclusions), slrn used to use .local/share/slrn/jnewsrc-gmane just fine. Now slrn exits with the following error: Using newsrc file /home/boeckb/.jnewsrc for server /home/boeckb/.local/share/slrnpull/news.slrn fatal error: Unable to open /home/boeckb/.jnewsrc. If you want to create /home/boeckb/.jnewsrc, add command line options: -f /home/boeckb/.jnewsrc --create This started occurring recently (within the past few weeks?), but I don't see any recent Koji builds which might have caused this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): slrn-1.0.1-3.fc19.x86_64
slrn(1) reads: > To use slrn, you either need to set the NNTPSERVER environment variable > to the server you want to read news from or specify a server on the > command line. A newsrc file is needed, too. In case you do not yet > have one, you can create it using ``slrn -f ~/.jnewsrc --create''. and > -h host[:port] > Connect to the NNTP server on host, overriding the $NNTPSERVER > environment variable. If no port is given, the default NNTP > port (119) will be used. This option is only accepted after > --nntp or when NNTP is the default mode. I have ever called slrn with `-h' option explicitly (because I do not use NNTPSERVER environment variable and I have defined more servers). I haven't changed anything recently. I believe your implicit server selection is not a supported feature.
Hmm, I'll see if I can find an older build to test or see if I'm just trying to use the wrong history command.
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So I finally got around to it and debugged this to completion. Apparently something changed around the spool_root variable? Apparently it had never been set to the right path and it happened to work before. Fixing it makes slrn without options work again.