Re: help news

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

russcook@flash.net 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 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?

Normally you need to use either innxmit (if you have it) or rnews (if
you don't) to post the downloaded articles locally.

Your best bet is probably to use get-news, which is a Debian wrapper for
suck. You'll find it in the suck package.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]