On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:50:44PM -0800, Katie wrote: > Maybe I should replace "newbie" with "completely pathetic and clueless"?
Nah. After all, you are trying to learn instead of giving up. > I don't have an /etc/news/server file. I tried to create one, but it > didn't work. Most likely I did it wrong. How would I create > /etc/news/server? When you're asking questions like this, it's good to include exactly what you tried to do, as well as any error messages that come up. I'm going to guess that you're trying to do this as user "katie" but getting a permissions error. What to do is: 1) Become root. (in a terminal, run "su" and then feed it your password) 2) Using your favorite text editor, open /etc/news/server. (e.g. "pico /etc/news/server") 3) Put in the appropriate text (as described by Bill Kendrick, below). 4) Save the file and exit. The reason you can't do this as user "katie" is that the directory /etc/news is owned by user "root", and so (simplifying a little) nobody but root can create new files in /etc/news. > I don't know how to set anything in my login script. :-( > > My user name is katie. I don't know how to find ~katie/.bashr. When I > put it at the command line I got /home/katie/.bashrc not a directory. Using your favorite text editor, open ".bashrc". To set the environment variable VARIABLENAME, put in the line export VARIABLENAME=value Note that this won't take effect immediately; bash only reads ~/.bashrc when it first starts, so any terminals open before you edited ~/.bashrc won't see this change. Open a new terminal and test it. You can test it by running "echo $VARIABLENAME"; if you get a blank line, it didn't work. If you see VARIABLENAME's value, it worked. > My user name is katie. I don't know how to find ~katie/.bashr. When I > put it at the command line I got /home/katie/.bashrc not a directory. > > >Katie wrote: > > > Is there any way to set this up so I don't have to do the > > > $ export NNTPSERVER=news.ucdavis.edu everytime I go to use tin? > > > From: Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add "news.ucdavis.edu" to your /etc/news/server file, > > then just do "tin -r" > > Or, as mentioned before, set the NNTPSERVER variable in your login > > script. > > > > From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > How 'bout putting that into ~krwright1/.bashrc ? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Samuel Merritt OpenPGP key is at http://meat.andcheese.org/~spam/spam_at_andcheese_dot_org.asc Information about PGP can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/
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