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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!claudia.surfsouth.com!usenet From: dwadams@surfsouth.com (don adams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Newbie Near Death - Needs Help! Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:47:58 GMT Organization: Surf South, Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4cjo8e$dsk@claudia.surfsouth.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-alb1-27.surfsouth.com X-Newsreader: NeoLogic News for OS/2 [version: 4.2] I've been struggling with FreeBSD for three months now and am about ready to throw in the towel. My purpose for using FreeBSD is focused. I am trying to set up a news server to run on a small local network. The news feed will be taken from a PageSat satellite receiver. The local network will not be live on the Internet. I first installed 2.0.5 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM and tried in vain to get the INN package running. The INN distribution was on the CD-ROM. A couple of weeks ago I received the 2.1 version from Walnut Creek. I have this installed and working over the Ethernet network via TCP/IP. I can FTP/Telnet, etc. OK. The 2.1 CD-ROM doesn't have the INN package, so I installed the Cnews package. Now I can't get Cnews up. One problem is that I can't SU to news or bin so that I can run Cnews files. I've edited groups, but when I login as root and su bin or su news I get the following message: su: /nonexistent: No such file or directory Any ideas to help with this problem? What I want to do is to be able to read news over the network with a newsreader such as FreeAgent under windows or NeoLogic news under OS/2. Do I need to install the NNTP package from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM just to read news or is the Cnews package sufficient? I won't be receiving a feed over TCP or feeding someone else. The PageSat folks currently only have Unix software available to receive the news and place it in the spool directory. That's why I need to get this Unix up. If and when they get their DOS software going, I can probably get Changi, an OS/2 based news server package, doing what I need it to do. Currently, I've got a nice, new high speed satellite receiver with no way to use it. Any and all help will be MOST APPRECIATED! Thanks! Don Don Adams <dwadams@surfsouth.com>