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gmkelly <gmkelly@zip.com.au> wrote:

Please note that I run suck 2.3B here, so there may be differences
between what I tell you and what actually works, but if you'd like,
you can send me your version of suck and I'll have a look.

>I am a newbie user of SUCK-3.3.1.  I have read and reread the man 
>pages especially the suck manpage, together with all the sample
>scripts etc.  However, whilst I successfully down-load the news
>groups place in the {$BASEDIR}/doNews/sucknewsrc file, the news goes
>into /var/spool/news/junk file rather than splitting the retrieved
>news into the news groups specified in suchnewsrc.

I'm guessing that's sucknewsrc, not suchnewsrc you meant.

With 2.3, you needed to have a NNTP news server running.  From the way
it's running from your description, it sounds like that's still the
case, so we've immediately ruled out suck as being the problem.  The
problem is that your news server is getting the articles, going "This
isn't for a group I want" and so chucks it into junk.  The solution is
to place the newsgroup names into (probably) /usr/lib/news/active.
This will tell the NNTP server that it wants those groups.  For
example, if you wanted alt.test, you'd put:

alt.test 0000000000 0000000000 y

into your active file.

If you're running INN (as I am here) then you can just execute
/usr/lib/news/bin/ctlinnd newgroup alt.test and it'll do the same
thing.

>ie: If I specify the newsgroups as follows:
>comp.os.linux.announce -1 [ 100 ]
>comp.os.linux.misc -1 [ 100 ]
>zip.general -1 [ 100 ]
>aus.computers.linux -1 [ 100 ]

>I would expect suck to put the retrieved news into /var/spool/news
>/comp.os.linux.annouce
>/comp.os.linux.misc
>etc...

Not quite.  It would actually go into
/var/spool/news/comp/os/linux/announce, etc.

>I need this type of filing as I am setting you a newsfeed for our

You need this type of filing to do anything with news.  Local reading,
spooling on, etc all require the directory format as I described
above.  BTW, you're not setting me a newsfeed, are you?  I've already
got one.  :-)

>local students, and I picked suck because I could specify the
>news groups that we want.

Suck's good like that, but you can do a similar thing with your normal
news retrieval system by specifying which groups you want in active.

>Any help will be much appreciated.

Well, I hope that helps, if it still doesn't work, you could try
sending your version of suck to maddy@tgw.net.au and I could have a
look at it.  Maybe I could see something you missed or something like
that.




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