Re: Reading news offline (Was: Using suck to transfer news....)

1997-07-21 Thread Randy Edwards
On 20 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: Does anyone else use suck+inn to get news offline, in that case I would be happy if anyone could drop me a hint on how. I'm using suck and inn and things are working pretty well from what I've seen. I just use the /usr/bin/get-news command as

Re: Reading news offline

1997-07-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 20, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote JC == Jason Costomiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't gotten it to work yet. No wonder. suck's manpage was a mess when I last looked at it about a month ago. Suck transfers some articles from

Re: Reading news offline (Was: Using suck to transfer news....)

1997-07-21 Thread W Paul Mills
On 20 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: JC == Jason Costomiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC innxmit is a part of the inn package. However, it is almost JC *never* directly invoked. It usually gets called by nntpsend, JC after it parses the nntpsend.ctl file. Ok, I just follow

Reading news offline (Was: Using suck to transfer news....)

1997-07-20 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
JC == Jason Costomiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC innxmit is a part of the inn package. However, it is almost JC *never* directly invoked. It usually gets called by nntpsend, JC after it parses the nntpsend.ctl file. Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't gotten it

Re: Reading news offline (Was: Using suck to transfer news....)

1997-07-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On 20 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't gotten it to work yet. Suck transfers some articles from the server, and makes a batchfile for innxmit, but innxmit wants to read from /var/spool/news/out.going, which seems to be

Reading news offline, leafnode and syslog-problems.

1996-11-12 Thread jhspies
Thank you to everyone who responded. One person even sent his config-files for suck and inn. That helped me to get suck going. After experimenting I decided to follow the advice on this list to try out leafnode. It is easy to install and configure and at the moment I use it in combination with

Re: Reading news offline

1996-11-10 Thread Nick Busigin
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Nick Actually, for a small newsfeed I prefer CNews with the nntp Nick package to inn (but that's a personal preference). If you have Nick inn up and running properly, don't bother changing it. i would advice using leafnode - doesn't require

Re: Reading news offline

1996-11-10 Thread Adam Shand
take a look at it http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue9/newsserver.html Thanks for the tip. I probably won't change because I've already got CNews, NNTP and suck working quite nicely. I will take a look at leafnode for some other installations I've got to do

Re: Reading news offline

1996-11-08 Thread my name
I have a dial-up connection to my ISP. I want to be able to read the usergroups offline. I have downloaded suck, inn and inews and also trn. After I have read their documentation and also the News-HOWTO, I still do not know how to do it. I can read news with trn and gnus, but only while I am

Re: Reading news offline

1996-11-07 Thread Nick Busigin
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Johann Spies wrote: Date: Tue, 5 Nov 96 15:35 SAT From: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Reading news offline Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:40:15 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org I have a dial-up

Re: Reading news offline

1996-11-07 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Nick, You wrote: Nick Nick On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Johann Spies wrote: Nick Nick Date: Tue, 5 Nov 96 15:35 SAT From: Johann Spies Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Nick Subject: Reading news offline Resent-Date: Tue, Nick 5 Nov 1996 11:40:15 -0500 (EST) Resent-From

Reading news offline

1996-11-05 Thread Johann Spies
I have a dial-up connection to my ISP. I want to be able to read the usergroups offline. I have downloaded suck, inn and inews and also trn. After I have read their documentation and also the News-HOWTO, I still do not know how to do it. I can read news with trn and gnus, but only while I am