Re: help news

[Russ Cook <russcook@flash.net>]

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,
	Russ

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Colin Watson wrote:

> 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 (well, it
> would be if I didn't have various hacks around it to grab users'
> .newsrcs and automatically add them to the sucknewsrc). I'm using INN
> rather than cnews, but the procedure looks like it should be the same.
> 
> You may have a load of downloaded articles in /var/spool/suck, and batch
> files for them in /var/state/suck; to post those without having to
> download them again, something like 'rnews your.news.server <
> /var/state/suck/batch.whatever' should work (see the end of
> /usr/sbin/get-news), followed by removing the batch files and
> /var/spool/suck/your.news.server.
> 
> > 		And Happy Thanksgiving!
> 
> Well, we're not having the turkey here in the UK, but the same to you!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
> 
>