Re: Gnus doesn't start
> "M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> | > What's the value of your NNTPSERVER environment variable? What about
> | > the value of gnus-default-nntp-server in Emacs after you start gnus?
> | > You can add the following to your ~/.gnus file:
> |
> | Hmm...NNTPSERVER isn't set :(. Where do I set it (I guess .bash_profile
> | isn't much good, and won't help the rest of my users)?
>
> If you want it global then in /etc/profile put
>
> NNTPSERVER=servername;export NNTPSERVER
>
> and in /etc/csh.cshrc put
>
> setenv NNTPSERVER servername
>
> obviously replacing "servername" with whatever is appropriate.
>
> That should do the trick. This is for hamm, but the /etc/profile is
> pretty much universal, while the global CSH file may vary.
I did all of that, and now it says no more unread newsgroups, even though
if I then read trn there's quite a lot of unread news :((
Matthew
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