You're trying to run newnews.pl as a cgi. It should be executed priodically from the command line or with the help of cron.

It may be possible to run it as a cgi, but first, get it working from the command line.

Thanks for your quick reply, this is how I am trying to run it

http://forums.realwebhost.net/newnews.pl

Is this wrong?

Joey

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Although several people successfully ran it this way, the script was not written with this intention.

Before you try this, you should run it from the command line / telnet which will allow you to easily see any errors.

If you don't have telnet access, then you need to make sure you have full logging turned on for your webserver and study those logs after running it the way you have been trying. The most common errors you will see will be missing modules. Do a search in this thread for posts by NgtCrwlr. He posted a little script that will list the modules you have installed.

ok thanks, Here is the path to my modules. I believe all are loaded.

http://realwebhost.net/cgi-sys/perldiver.cgi

Joey

It looks like you have two versions of Perl conflicting. The executables are 5.005 but the modules are 5.6 :confused: Is this what you expected to see?

This is what my host has loaded. Can this still work?

I hope so.

Joey

this is how I have newnews.pl setup, I left password out.
Do I need to change any of this?


#!/usr/bin/perl
# Usenet Gateway hack for vBulletin 2.0
#
# $Id: newnews.pl,v 20010528 2001-05-28 00:29:14-05 paul Exp $
#
# This script creates a gateway to selected usenet newsgroups and maintains
# an historical mirror of articles in your vBulletin forums.
#
# This script is free. You are welcome to do whatever you want with it as
# long as you don't try and sell it or claim it as your own.
# The copyright is retained by the author.
#
# Author:
# fastforward (Paul)
# contact me via the vBulletin forums at http://vbulletin.com
#
#

# uncomment the following line if you installed perl modules to a
# non-standard directory
# use lib "/usr/home/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005";

my $db_name="realweb_forums"; # realweb_forums
my $db_host="localhost"; # localhost
my $db_username="realweb_admin"; # realweb_admin
my $db_password=""; #
my $pid_file="newnews.pid";

can someone help please I am getting this error when I run the script.

[/home/realweb/www]# ./newnews.pl
Global symbol "$db" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 611.
Global symbol "$db" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 612.
Execution of ./newnews.pl aborted due to compilation errors

Joey

ok I got it to go through Now I get this when it is done, but nothing shows up on my board.

[/home/realweb/www]# ./newnews.pl
Purging usenet articles...
Purging usenet threads older than 30 days from MSNEWS... OK
Purge completed.

Assuming you have set up the forum to usenet group mappings correctly, the most common reason for posts not showing is that the posts you downloaded are older than 30 days. This means they are being purged as soon as you import them. Try turning the 'AutoPurge' option off in the control panel.