On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 05:36, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > I have been using pan for reading news offline, but now I want to > use slrn for this purpose. So, I installed nntp and inews packages > from Debian unstable. But now I find that setting them up is not > easy enough, and there seems to a shortage of man pages on this > subject on my system.
Dont use innd - just install and configure leafnode, and then set slrn to read from nntp:localhost > [P.S. -- I have avoided using leafnode and slrnpull, since I already > know how to configure them to get the above job done. I just > wanted to be able to use a _real_ news server and learn how > to configure it. Oh. You don't want leafnode? See what a "suck feed" is, and what an upstream nntp server is. You might want to also use the /etc/ppp/ip-[up,down].local scripts if you are on a dialup. srs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
