Re: really stuffed up news system!!!!!!!
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:28:48PM +0200, inksi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now I have really stuffed up my news system. :(
>
> Iniatially my potatoe box had the dialup utilities selected by
> tasksel all installed. But there seemed to be no news reader.
>
> 1. I then looked to installing a suitable offline news reader.
> 2. I thought that slrn would do the job
> 3. I ignored advice to use leafnode and installed slrnpull because
> the documentation claimed it was simpler for small installation
> 4. Things were not looking good from many aspects so..
> 5. When I noticed that fetchmail was running and that this was part
> of the leafnode setup i used dselect and removed them.
> 6. When things still did not function correctly I removed slrn and
> slrnpull and reinstalled them (years of M$ conditioning asserting
> itself there)
> 7. Now it still does not function correctly and in addition we have
> other problems - to whit
and then I removed slrnpull and put leafnode back..........
>
> It wants rnews, and this is nowhere to be found on the machine
> except in /usr/lib/ , nor can I find it in dselect.
>
> The main problem before stuffing it all up was that invoking slrn
> brought up a host of messages that it could not create directories
> like /var/spool/slrnpull/news/my/news/group thus anything downloaded
> seemed to evaporate into thin air and was not to be found under
> /var/spool
>
> What I first need to do is to ensure that I have everything on board
> that I should have, and I suppose that means rnews.
>
> Running tasksel again merely tells me that I have the latest version
> of the dialup package installed, so it isn't going to fill in the
> blanks. I don't want to remove the dialup package and start again as
> that would break the email connection.
>
> Can somebody please hold my hand and lead me down the yellow brick
> road please?
>
> On-list please.
>
> :)
>
> --
> Ian Balchin
> http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables
> This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
--
Ian Balchin
http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables
This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
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