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Quote:

Originally Posted by Rik Brown (Post 1163650)

I hate to say it but the vb scheduler has worked flawlessly for us over the past several months that we have had this mod installed.

Rik, to double check, would you mind telling me exactly what the settings are that you have in nntp_groups, nntp_settings (substituting for any private info) and the scheduled task manager? I'd appreciate it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgrtap (Post 1163225)

I'm totally baffled. The gateway works, no problem. But the scheduler is a disaster. It starts, it stops, no error messages, no nothing. I can't figure it out for the life of me.

By any chance, are you trying to bring in all of the articles in a particular group or groups? The script will time itself out after 30 minutes so if you're trying to bring in thousands of articles and the script is still running for greater than 30 minutes the next time the scheduled task runs then it'll kill the prior task and try over again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by KW802 (Post 1164036)

No, this is a very small email gateway for a private forum on one side and a small Yahoo group on the other. We might be talking about 200 messages in a busy week.

I have found a news supplier, who will accept port 80. I have changed the code in gateway.php
But I get the following errors:

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.3:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT post.*, thread.*,
post.dateline AS postdateline, post.msgid AS postmsgid,
thread.title AS threadtitle, post.visible AS postvisible,
thread.visible AS threadvisible
FROM vbpost as post LEFT JOIN vbthread as thread
ON (thread.threadid = post.threadid
AND post.userid = thread.postuserid
AND post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
WHERE post.isusenetpost = 0
AND post.postid > 966
AND thread.forumid = 67;

MySQL Error : Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Error Number : 2013
Date : Sunday, January 21st 2007 @ 02:08:15 PM
Script : http://www.forum.xx.com/gateway.php?debug=1
Referrer :
IP Address : 82.xxxxxx

Any help on this please,:)
Dave

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgrtap (Post 1163838)

I don't have a screen capture utility installed (a company no-no). But here is a sample setting for a newsgroup:

HTML Code:

Newsgroup/Mailing list E-mail                  [alt.pandas              ]

Forum                                         [-- Pandas Forum         ] <- vBulletin Forum

Prefix                                         [                        ]

Last Message                                 [                        ]

Server                                         [news.yournewsserver.com ]

User name (only if required)                 [your_user_name_here     ]

Password (only if required)                 [your_password_here      ]

Enter 'use_real_email' if you want the  [                        ] <- I leave blank

posts to use the real email addresses.

Enter 'My Name <myemail@a_domain.com>' if you want all the posts use this name and email.

Please leave this empty if unsure!!!         

Enabled                                 Yes No                     <- Your choice

Except to change URLs to reflect our own site, we have used the defaults in the gateway settings except perhaps the following (set to 1 or zero):

Override useragent and organization checks to import absolutely everything from USENET. 1 = Full Import from oldest existing message, 0 = Ignore and start at next message.
Full import from USENET full_import_from_usenet 0

Use the email address to associate postings with the corresponding vBulletin user.
Associate by Email associate_by_email 1

Skip the message if the message has the X-No-Archive header set to yes. Google Group honours this Non-standard header. Set to 1 to honour. 0 to ignore.
Honour No-Archive honor_no-archive 0 [Edit]

When it is set to 1, no signatures will be sent with posts. When it is set to 0, users' signature selection at post is honoured.
Send no signature nosignature 1 [Edit]

Set to 1 : no profile/view thread footer will be sent. Set to 0 : attach user profile and view forum thread footer with each message posted.
Send no footer nofooter 1

Default = 0. Set to 1 : Time stamp for imported messages use the original post time. Set to 0 : Time stamp uses the time when the messages is imported
Use Post Time use_post_time 1

The vb scheduler looks like:

HTML Code:

Varname                          gateway_varname

Title [Translations]                 NNTP Gateway

Description [Translations]         Usenet newsgroups gateway mailer.

Log Phrase [Translations]         NNTP Gateway

Day of the Week (Note: this     *

overrides the 'day of the 

month' option)         

        

Day of the Month                 *

        

Hour                                 *

        

Minute                                 30 - - - - -

        

Active                                 yes

Yes No

        

Log Entries                         no                

Yes No

        

Filename                        ./gateway.php         

        

Product                         vBulletin

I hope the above helps. We are only importing newsgroups so we haven't tried binaries or mailinglists.

Regards. -- Rik

ps: Sorry, the gateway options order above may be different as we may have sorted them.

We copied our install onto a dedicated server so we could see the Apache error logs and the immediately obvious error was having gateway.php installed in includes/cron causing it to fail trying to require files from includes/cron/includes/cron thus causing cron.php to fail.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rik Brown

Code:

Filename ./gateway.php

We've corrected the task to use ./gateway.php -- and now the forum doesn't respond. (sigh)

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgrtap (Post 1164593)

Forget cron for the time being. You need to have the gateway.php file installed in your vb forums root directory and functions_nntp.php, mime.php, and pop.php in the "includes" subdirectory beneath your forums root directory (and all other files in their correct directories per the install instructions).

Then run gateway.php in debug mode such as vb.com/forums/gateway.php?debug=1. You should see some sort of output that should help indicate if you have any further problems. But it just looks like you need to get the directory structure correct first. Then the vb scheduler should also work since ./gateway.php is referring to executing the gateway.php file in your root vb forum directory.

-- Rik

Quote:

Originally Posted by poliveira (Post 944948)

I am receiving this error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE nntp_settings
SET value = WHERE varname = 'last_postid';

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE varname = 'last_postid'' at line 2
Error Number : 1064
Date : Saturday, April 8th 2006 @ 10:18:32 PM
Script : http://.../forums/gateway.php
Referrer :
IP Address : ...
Username : ...
Classname : vB_Database

I am getting the same type of error message. I am not seeing the tables in my vb database

Mine...

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT post.*, thread.*,
post.dateline AS postdateline, post.msgid AS postmsgid,
thread.title AS threadtitle, post.visible AS postvisible,
thread.visible AS threadvisible
FROM vb3_post as post LEFT JOIN vb3_thread as thread
ON (thread.threadid = post.threadid
AND post.userid = thread.postuserid
AND post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
WHERE post.isusenetpost = 0
AND post.postid >
AND thread.forumid = 93;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND thread.forumid = 93' at line 11 Error Number : 1064
Date : Tuesday, January 23rd 2007 @ 04:50:20 PM
Script : http://www.domain.com/forums/gateway.php?debug=1
Referrer :
IP Address : *.*.*.*
Username : *********
Classname : vb_database

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rik Brown (Post 1165190)

Then run gateway.php in debug mode such as vb.com/forums/gateway.php?debug=1. You should see some sort of output that should help indicate if you have any further problems.

We get the missing-value SQL error.

Code:

SET value = WHERE varname = 'last_postid'

This message appears to be a consequence of having NO postings in the section.

Jul 2005? What ever happened to this mod? Has anyone successfully installed it on 3.6.4?

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_code_printable (2)bbcode_html_printable (10)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (2)pagenav_pagelinkrel (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (10)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
Messages:

Phrase Groups Available:

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.02871 seconds Memory Usage 1,773KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_code_printable (2)bbcode_html_printable (10)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (2)pagenav_pagelinkrel (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (10)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
Messages: