Re: Setting Up Newsgroups
Hello, > > How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed > > the news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to > > pull maybe 10 groups down to my local box. ... > The simplest news server is probably leafnode. I've never used it, so > can't give you specific instructions, but it is designed for exactly this > situation. It provides a news server, and downloads those groups you > have subscribed to with your newsreader from an upstream server. You > don't have to deal with the intricacies of inn or anything like that. Seconded recommendation of leafnode - but get the slink version (use --force if necessary). With hamm leafnode and tin, tin would hang when attempting to access a newsgroup for the first time (afterwards it was OK, so it was not a major problem, but it's nicer when it works as it should). HTH Jiri
Re: Setting Up Newsgroups
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:42:50PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the > news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull > maybe 10 groups down to my local box. Your article leaves many open questions: Which newsserver did you install, what do you mean with "I installed the news server_s_"? You don't need more than one. Can you use UUCP or do you have to use NNTP? With the few groups you want to get, wouldn't slrnpull be an option? If you don't like slrn, then probably not but then maybe leafnode could be used instead of a full blown newsserver? What you have to do next is basically create the groups locally on your system and tell your computer to fetch articles from your ISP's newsserver.
Re: Setting Up Newsgroups
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:42:50PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the > news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull > maybe 10 groups down to my local box. You'll also need a news reader if you are going to use a news server - something like Gnus (in Emacs), tin or slrn that provides a user interface allowing you to read and write news articles. Tastes vary, but for my money Gnus is the easiest and most featureful. Which news server have you installed? With either inn or cnews, you should investigate one of the news downloaders like suck or newsx. Neither inn nor cnews is really designed for pulling news from another sever and it's all a bit heavy duty. The simplest news server is probably leafnode. I've never used it, so can't give you specific instructions, but it is designed for exactly this situation. It provides a news server, and downloads those groups you have subscribed to with your newsreader from an upstream server. You don't have to deal with the intricacies of inn or anything like that. There are also newsreaders which can do the downloading themselves, giving you the ability to read news offline. Gnus and slrn can do this. I've no experience with doing this. The disadvantages are that each user downloads news seperately and it's a bit harder to arrange for news to be downloaded automatically when you bring up a PPP link. It also ties you to using that reader. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpvAauYbqC1H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Setting Up Newsgroups
How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull maybe 10 groups down to my local box. Thanks
