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
[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
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
On Thursday 23 November 2000 11:32, Russ Cook wrote:
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?
Russ,
Before you go to all that work, if you only have
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 at 11:32:16 -0600, Russ Cook wrote:
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?
On my machine it's just '/usr/sbin/get-news' in a cron job
Ok. Running rnews leaves me with a large batch file in
/var/spool/news/in.coming, but nothing in the various
/var/spool/news/newgroups directories. How do I get
the batch file processed by localhost and posted to the
appropriate subdirectories?
Thanks a lot for the help so far.
Regards,
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