Hi Glynn, We have some success!
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:55:50PM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote: > Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, let me just catch up here!! You are running > > a. Leafnode? > b. slrn on yes, yes > > debian stable? > on a dial-up machine? yes, yes, > > On the assumption that all these are answered yes (the debian verson will > not make much difference) ................ for the record, potatoe > > A. LEAFNODE > > The _point_ of leafnode is that it acts as a nice little news server on > your machine. Once you have used it to collect the list of newsgroups it > will then only rake in articles for groups to which you hav subscribed. > You can then read OFFLINE, post articles, answer any articles you like, > then when you dial up again the post will go out and new stuff will come > in. If you have the LDP HowTo's on you machine there is a nice HowTo > on setting up a leafsite (ie using leafnode). So, to go back a bit, > clear out what you have in /var/lib/slrn/newsgroups.dsc - get rid of that > file. make sure that you have set the first two parameters in > /etc/news/leafnode/config correctly. Then go on line and, as root, do > > #fetchnews -vvvv all done, not that all those v's made it particularly verbose. > > That will download the list of newsgroups on the newserver and put it in > the right place ie > > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo > > might take 10 or 15 minutes depending on your set-up. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Now slrn! Ditch any homebrewed .jnewsrc you have. Make sure that you > have set ditched > > NNTPSERVER="localhost" > > as I mentioned before and log out and in again to make that take effect. > all done ok > > Then in a terminal do > > $ slrn -f /home/glyn/.jnewsrc --create done, but first I found that /etc/nntpserver had to have `localhost' in whereas it had `news.saix.net' and this was why the above line always failed when offline as it tried to access saix. That fixed, OK. It must have got like that earlier on, have no idea how. > > That will create your .jnewsrc and you should get a list of groups - you > may well get the entire list of newgroups !! Kill of slrn (q y) and come > back again - just "slrn" will do it this time. > > Now L should work - if you want all the groups listed which include the > word "linux" do > > L and then when prompted put in *linux* > > ? (or is it h?) will fire up the help screen. > > When you have subscribed to a few groups go on lin again. Leafnode will > download the articles for the groups in which you are interested - this > may take a while - then fire up slrn and you should be in business. > > The key to all this getting leafnode set up right. If you set slrn > going in the way I've described, actually reading the news should be > straighforward ;-) I didn't have slrn on my machine, so have just > downloaded it and set it up as I described - ten minutes from start to > finish. > > > If you need more help it might be an idea to do it off list ? Probably lots of guys get a good laugh out of me, so happy to stay onlist if you are. I think that I will get on top of it now and will keep you posted of success or failure. Thanks for the help. > > Good luck > > Glyn > > -- > **************************************************************************** > * Note that I use Debian version testing/unstable * > * Linux glynthebearded 2.4.17 #1 Mon Jan 14 23:14:00 GMT 2002 i686 unknown * > **************************************************************************** > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
