basics about nntpservers, slrnpull, slrn
As having great difficulties in setting up a offline
newsreader system for various users on a debian box
I would grately appreciate some guidance.
My intention is to have a systemwide spool directory
where each user on this box may access his beloved
newsgroup he has subscribed to.
Some people recommended to use slrn as I wanted to have
a text based newsreader. To enable offline newsreading
slrnpull.deb might be helpful.
To my understanding all desired newsgroups that have to
be replicated have to be defined in
/var/spool/slrnpull/slrnpull.conf
but nothing seems to help me to define where each slrn
user saves _his_ newsgroup subscriptions, the newsgroups
he is only interested in. I'm not thinking of the contents,
the message bodies hereby, only the name of the newsgroup.
Having the replication of a few newsgroups in mind (< 12)
and to install a local newserver apt-cache suggested:
+ leafnode
+ cnews+nntp
and the following programs which I'm not able to classify
correctly:
+ diablo
+ nntpcache
+ uqwk
+ task-news-server
I would really be grateful if someone helps me to get
some structure into this.
Robert
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