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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:42:51 +1030, Stephen Reynolds wrote:

> slrn tells me that I have to set the NNTPSERVER environment variable to my
> sever name - but I don't know how to do that. It gives an example, but I
> don't understand the example. The example is (csh): setenv NTTPSERVER
> my.news.server

Replace my.news.server with the machine you want slrn to read from, in this
case your localhost, type hostname to see what it is. If you are using bash
(likely) then put this in your /etc/profile:

NNTPSERVER=my.news.server
export NNTPSERVER

> I'm using slrn on a stand alone machine using RedHat Linux 5.2. I'm using
> leafnode so that I can use slrn as an offline newsreader, I think my server
> name should be localhost. That works if I use the following command to
> launch slrn. $slrn -f localhost

SLRN has its own tool to manage a local NNTP site, slrnpull, which should
have been included in the distribution. I personally use leafnode with tin
(recommended :) which I prefer with a local news site but slrn comes into its
own when reading news from a remote site.
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