Re: basics about nntpservers, slrnpull, slrn
* Robert Land (Robert.Land@t-online.de) wrote:
> 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.
>
slrn does this automagically - if youfollow the setup/install steps,
it'll go find out newsgroup names (from the spool in your case) and then
write a .newsrc for each user.
the user then uses slrn to choose which groups to subscribe to, and this
is saved in their .newrc. (it's a versatile little file!)
> Having the replication of a few newsgroups in mind (< 12)
> and to install a local newserver apt-cache suggested:
>
> + leafnode
> + cnews+nntp
>
i'm currently using slrnpull and slrn, but i'm the only user so you
might be better off with a bigger local server.
iain
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