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cobranet
cobranet

Reputation: 119

Why I get this error in emacs when starting Gnus

nntp (news) open error: '>> news/nntp Name or service not known)'.

I am runing ubuntu

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1387

Answers (1)

Wes Hardaker
Wes Hardaker

Reputation: 22262

Gnus requires that you have configured a news server to use, and I think it defaults to "news", which doesn't exist in your local search domains (likely given to you via DHCP from your ISP or local router). You can set it by putting the following lines in your ~/.gnus file:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "my cool server" 
                           (nntp-address "PUT.ADDRESS.HERE"))

Change PUT.ADDRESS.HERE to the full name of your nntp server.

Upvotes: 3

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