Re: help news

[Russ Cook <russcook@flash.net>]

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 wrote:

> 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,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
> 
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