On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:40:55PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 14:49:09 +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > I'm new to slrn and did a apt-get install a few weeks ago. I'm not that > > sure anymore but I thought apt-get had prompted for a valid news server > > while being in installation mode. > > Addionaly I also thought slrn had pulled all newsgroups from the prompted > > newsserver (at least I have this warning about 'it could take a few > > minutes' in my mind). > > > > After this installation I didn't bother about this programm - up to today > > - realizing there was no .newsrc or .jnewsrc on my disk. > > It asks whether to fetch the newsgroup descriptions (not their content - > that takes quite a bit longer than a few minutes) which it caches in > /var/lib/slrn/newsgroups.dsc . > > HTH, > Ray
I thought of all active newsgroups on the nntp server (I guess you meant that by the newsgroup descriptions) - yes - not their contents. The action the docs describe by using the -create flag. Grepping in the root dir (apt-get install only seems to work in su modi) or in the spool directories resulted in no success. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]