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Article #2407Re: Okay, what CNews info do I need BEFORE I read the manuals
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 1990 22:56
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 1990 22:56
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In article <9008251535.AA15538@jade.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:
>From browsing the news.software.b and other related groups, I see references
>to either needing to do things (like build the software as user of news, etc.)
>or configure things which are perhaps not exactly obvious.
Many sysadmins' experience is that if you follow the directions, it works.
(For example, the current version is fairly explicit about the matter
of what uid to do things as.)
However, it is true that our documentation is not really very good for
someone who's never dealt with news administration before. Our usual
suggestion is that you first get and read the Nutshell Handbook on
the subject:
"Managing UUCP and Usenet", by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino,
O'Reilly & Associates, 1989, ISBN 0-937175-48-X. This latest
edition covers C News as well as B News. It's not perfect but
it's lots better than nothing. Inquiries to nuts@ora.com or
uunet!ora!nuts.
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Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Okay, what CNews info do I need BEFORE I read the manuals Message-ID: <1990Aug25.225630.6645@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <9008251535.AA15538@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 90 22:56:30 GMT