I am trying to use Suck and Cnews to download articles from my ISP and deliver to a local news server for offline reading with Netscape Communicator. I (think) I have Suck and Cnews properly configured - at least, I can manually initiate a news dump with the command "suck news.flash.net -U myusername -P mypasswd -dm /var/spool/news/in.coming"
I can see that message get loaded to in.coming. But, nothing happens from there. When using Netscape, it connects to my localhost, but the newsgroups always show as empty. The files don't get moved from in.coming to the appropriate directories under /var/spool/news. Are there additional programs or scripts that I need besides Suck and Cnews to complete the process? If so, could someone please point me to them, or provide me some sample scripts? I would like to have certain newsgroups automatically downloaded periodically and available offline to my browser. I don't seem to have any cron scripts installed to do this. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Russ