🚀 go-pugleaf

In aus.computers.linux on Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:48:58 GMT
David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
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>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?

Do a google search (www.google.com) on leafnode or slrnpull.

Any other method requires your ISP to agree to feed you, it's easier
to use something like slrnpull especially if you are using slrn.

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

Same way everything else is automated, write a script to put in
/etc/rc.d/init.d and a link in one of the startup directories (see man
init).  I usually copy the lpd script and change the appropriate bits.

If that's too hard, then put 
	/bin/innd &
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
(using the right path of course)


>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.

Well, give it one or the other :)

In your .slrnrc file, try a line like
nnrpaccess "news.myisp.com.au" 

where news.myisp.com.au is the name of your ISP's news server.

Or the name of whichever news server you are using, in your case
gtech?


See the man page for slrn, and the default .slrnrc which can be found
on the web or somewhere like /usr/lib/slrn/slrn.rc

Zebee