Re: Running FreeNews and the ANT Suite together

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From: Joseph Heenan
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 00:00

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Malcolm Pigott (malcolm@pigott.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Hi,

> I would like to start FreeNews automatically, at a certain time using the
> stack that the ANT Suite II uses. I can kick off a connection on the ANT
> Suite OK and can also start FreeNews, but what I was wondering is if there is
> a way to stop FreeNews trying to connect to the news until the stack has
> connected to the 'net (I'm using Dial Up)?

Probably not... you could use a script that only ran it if a net connection
was up and available.

> At the moment, FreeNews locks up the machine if a connection to the 'net is
> not available when it starts up. BTW, all this is automatic, with no manual
> intervention (using Task Alarms and scripts at the moment). However, I don't
> always get a connection first time and the last thing I want is to get home
> to find a hung machine!

> Any advice?

You could try listing the news server you're using in your hosts file,
this may stop the lockup up problem freenews has. (or get a newsfetcher
with a decent multitasking resolver built into it... :-) )

HTH,

Joseph

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From: esuvf@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Joseph Heenan)
Subject: Re: Running FreeNews and the ANT Suite together
Date: 1997/05/24
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