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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: newbie c-news on FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 16 Jul 1995 00:42:30 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3u9n9m$pb@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <476830834wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <476830834wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk>, Robin Birch <robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >I have a 2.0 box at home which I use as both a news server and client. I >run slurp to get the groups that i want - this works fine. I want to >use c-news to break bown the stuff that slurp has delivered and provide >it to my account on the FreeBSD box. At present it cheerfully throws it >all in junk and doesn't appear to want to recognise any of the groups >as suitable for passing on to its trusty user. Do you have an active file? Junk is usually where things end up if the group isn't mentioned in the active file. >So, I any body who has set up c-news could email me and talk me through >the setup then many grovelling thanks. Also If anybody could suggest an >alternative to c-news and/or a good x11 news reader. If there is one >buried in the 2.0 distrib then what am I loking for?. I gave up on c-news after spending days getting it to work under Linux, only to find I couldn't post because of a shell bug (at least that's what I was told). INN is much better documented, not just the documentation that comes with it, but also the FAQs in the newsgroup (news.software.nntp). Like most unix stuff, it's dead easy to set up once you've done it half a dozen times 8-). Sorry, I don't know anything about X news readers. Tin is probably the best one to start with (IMHO), although that's text mode as well. Or, if you like emacs, you can use that to read news. (I use trn myself). James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'