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phillip@status.gen.nz (Phillip Hardy) writes:

>this is one of the key gripes. :) 
>i recompiled it and still have not got news running :(

>what do you other linux users recoment 
>cnews / inn or what ever?

I'd only previously used CNews before getting the LGX disk.  After I
discovered that it uses INN, I subscribed to the NNTP group.  The
general consensus seems to be that INN is superior to CNews, and if I
ever get a real IP connection, then it's just a matter of tweaking the
newsfeeds file to take full advantage of NNTP.  I've uncovered only
one problem, so far.  My newsfeed is currently via UUCP, which makes
a call at 6:00am to pick up the latest batch.  If rnews starts
feeding the batches to innd during the call, UUCP starts dropping
packets like crazy and the call terminates with an error.  I never
had this problem with rnews feeding CNews during a call.  My theory
is that innd ups it priority during news unbatching, and uucico
gets so little CPU time it can't keep up with the serial line.  I
haven't had the time to look at this closely, so I might be wrong.

If anybody out there is having problems getting INN up, I can
forward the configuration file and changes I had to make.  Part
of it is based on /pub/Linux/system/Mail/inn-1.4-linux-0.1.tar.gz
from sunsite; if you want to hack it yourself, get this file
as bash apparently needs a few patches (I didn't bother confirming
this, I just patched bash).

Rick.