Re: really stuffed up news system!!!!!!!
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:28:48PM +0200, bounce-debian-user=cfelling=iae.nl@lists.debian.org wrote:
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> Now I have really stuffed up my news system. :(
Haven't we all sometime:)
> Iniatially my potatoe box had the dialup utilities selected by
> tasksel all installed. But there seemed to be no news reader.
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> 5. When I noticed that fetchmail was running and that this was part
> of the leafnode setup i used dselect and removed them.
Fetchmail's job is to get mail from your IPS to your local machine, it
has no connection with news, or leafnode. So how did you notice it was
part of the leafnode setup?
> 6. When things still did not function correctly I removed slrn and
> slrnpull and reinstalled them (years of M$ conditioning asserting
> itself there)
When things don't work it's usely due to some misconfiguration. That is
something wrong in one of the config files in /etc. But you reinstalled
them, so they are installed now? No errors there? No pending config's
or what have you? You know how to use dselect? If so have a look
and tell us the status of those packages.
> It wants rnews, and this is nowhere to be found on the machine
> except in /usr/lib/ , nor can I find it in dselect.
slrnpull shouldn't need rnews, so what's the deal?
What program is requesting it?
> 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.
No, I don't think rnews is needed.
> 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
I don't now about tasksel, never used it, but it's possible to get
a list of all packages a task depends on. Write them down, start
dselect and select them individually. Or use `apt-get install'.
> blanks. I don't want to remove the dialup package and start again as
> that would break the email connection.
No need to do that.
--
groetjes, carel
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