Colin, Thanks for the reply. I have set up the get-news.conf file with server, username, and password. What options must I use to get the news downloaded and sent to Cnews? Thanks, And Happy Thanksgiving!
Regards, Russ On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >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? > > Normally you need to use either innxmit (if you have it) or rnews (if > you don't) to post the downloaded articles locally. > > Your best bet is probably to use get-news, which is a Debian wrapper for > suck. You'll find it in the suck package. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >