help news
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 myusername -P mypasswd -dm
/var/spool/news/in.coming"
I can see that message get loaded to in.coming. But, nothing happens from
there. When using Netscape, it connects to my localhost, but the
newsgroups always show as empty. The files don't get moved from in.coming
to the appropriate directories under /var/spool/news.
Are there additional programs or scripts that I need besides Suck and
Cnews to complete the process? If so, could someone please point me to
them, or provide me some sample scripts? I would like to have certain
newsgroups automatically downloaded periodically and available offline
to my browser. I don't seem to have any cron scripts installed to do
this.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Russ
Reply to: