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From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with INN and newsfeed
Date: 18 Oct 1995 00:56:29 GMT
Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services
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Mark Seiffert (seiffert@neosoft.com) wrote:
: I have a machine setup with FreeBSD 2.0.5-Release and INN 1.4-sec and
: I am having problems getting a news feed. I am connected to an ISP and
: can get news via Free Agent under Windows and trn under unix but I
: want to get the news delivered to my unix box at night so that I can
: read it during the day. I seem to have inn setup correctly, and when
: I run ppp, login and run rc.news, inn says it is connecting to the ISP
: and then nothing happens. I have spoken with the ISP and they say
: that they have to configure their end to send me news and that there
: is an extra charge for this because of the amount of work involved.
: I have been able to pull news from their system, using nntpget (i
: think), and would like to know if there is a way to get inn to get the
: news from them without an additional charge. My current newsfeed
: entry for them is;
: communique\
: : !junk,!local\
: : TC,Wnm: /usr/local/news/bin/nntpget -v -o news.communique.net
: Any help with be appreceated.
I think what you want is a program called "slurp". This essentially acts
as a very fast nntp client, and sticks all the articles it downloads into
inn's in.coming directory from whence they can be put into the database
using the rnews -U command.
Try archie'ing for it. If you don't find it I'll have a dig around and
let you know where mine came from.
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Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk
Paradise Green Technical Services: Software/Hardware Design
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