Re: How do you guys read news offline?
> I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am > interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own > articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone > could post his/her working setup. I use leafnode in conjunction with diald to allow for unattended retrieval and posting of new articles. My setup is as follows: 1) Comment out the commands that Debian sets up in /etc/cron.daily/leafnode. I do this because I want to retrieve more frequently than once a day to balance the load and because I like my postings to go out sometime in the near future. 2) Set up a crontab for user "news" like the one in attachment #1. As root, "crontab -u news -e". This will give you more flexible scheduling. 3) If you look at the attached crontab file, you'll see I run a script called /etc/leafnode.fetch. This script is provided as atttachment #2. Personally, I don't like leafnode's ability to download newsgroups based upon which ones have been read lately. I just want it to download the few I read -- even if I only read them once every two months. Paul Serice = ATTACHMENT #1: crontab for user "news" = # min hrdom moy dow command 0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /etc/leafnode.fetch 35 3* * * /usr/sbin/texpire = ATTACHMENT #2: /etc/leafnode.fetch = #!/bin/sh # # MY NOTES: leafnode automatically keeps track of which newsgroups #have been requested lately in #/var/spool/news/interesting.groups by "touching" a file #with the same name as the newsgroup. leafnode will not #retrieve news from a newsgroup that has not been #"touched" lately. By running this script right before #"fetch" runs, you'll be able to specify which newsgroups #to read, and you won't have to worry about a newsgroup #being forgotten just because it hasn't been read lately. # # IMPORTANT: This file is automatically run periodically from the #crontab for user "news". # cd /var/spool/news rm -rf interesting.groups mkdir interesting.groups chown news.news interesting.groups chmod 755 interesting.groups cd interesting.groups touch comp.lang.c touch comp.lang.c.moderated touch comp.lang.c++ touch comp.lang.c++.moderated touch comp.os.linux.advocacy touch comp.os.linux.announce touch comp.os.linux.answers touch comp.os.linux.development.apps touch comp.os.linux.development.system touch comp.os.linux.hardware touch comp.os.linux.m68k touch comp.os.linux.misc touch comp.os.linux.networking touch comp.os.linux.setup touch comp.os.linux.x touch comp.os.ms-windows.announce touch comp.os.os2.announce touch comp.protocols.nfs touch comp.protocols.smb touch comp.protocols.time.ntp touch comp.windows.x touch comp.windows.x.announce touch comp.windows.x.apps touch comp.windows.x.i386unix touch comp.windows.x.intrinsics touch comp.windows.x.motif touch rec.humor.funny touch rec.humor.funny.reruns exec /usr/sbin/fetch -v
Re: How do you guys read news offline?
On 15 Apr 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am > interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own > articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone > could post his/her working setup. > > Thanks a lot in advance! > Andy. While you're at it, tell us how to post from pine but override the from header. I would like to mangle my address whenever it goes to newsgroups, but not on normal mail. I see a lot of people doing this and putting instructions in the signature to unmangle it. I know with netscape it is a PITA - you have to go to the options and change things back and forth. If I get any more of these "get rich quick" opportunities, I will have to buy a bank of my own :-) If you know of such an opportunity send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.wtop.com/What does W.T.O.P. mean? + +--+
Re: How do you guys read news offline?
suck has an rpost function. On 15 Apr 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am > interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own > articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone > could post his/her working setup. > > Thanks a lot in advance! > Andy. > > Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you guys read news offline?
On 15 Apr 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am > interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own > articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone > could post his/her working setup. > > Thanks a lot in advance! > Andy. > > Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl > Check out leafnode, works great here. I use pine to actually read the mail. Leafnode handles d/l the groups I read. Nice little program. Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] === It was as small as the hope in a dead man's eyes.
Re: How do you guys read news offline?
On Apr 15, Andy Spiegl wrote > I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am > interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own > articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone > could post his/her working setup. If you have INN up and running, try nntpsend. Otherwise the should be a hint in suck's documentation. Regards, Joey -- Individual Network e.V._/OrgaTech KG i.Gr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Mi+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9808556
How do you guys read news offline?
Hi! I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone could post his/her working setup. Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl
