help setting up newsreader...

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From: David. E. Goble
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:48

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Hi All;

Iam running redhat 6.2 server install.

I have managed to set it up to be able to connect to my ISP, to
fetchmail and to browse the web.

I have even managed to setup a local newsgroup using innd and pine. My
question is how can I set it up so that I can download the newsgroups
from my ISPs news-server to my local news server?

At the moment I need to type innd very time to get innd started, how
can I automate this?

Also I tried setting up slrn, but it keeps saying it can not find a
hostname or that I need to setenv NNTPSERVER environment variable.

pine uses (from memory)

ntp-server: gtech/service=NNTP

My hosts file is 

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain gtech

If you need more info let me know....
--Regards       David. E. Goble
             goble [AT] kin.net.au
          http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223

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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Newsgroups: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: help setting up newsreader...
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:48:58 GMT
Sender: goble@kin.on.net (David. E. Goble)
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