Well, I did everything suggested, but when I put in tin -r it connects to news.ucdavis.edu, but then gives me:
servers active-file contains no newsgroups Exiting and it takes me back to the command line. Does this have to do with what I did? There was already stuff in the .bashrc file, but I added the line NNTPSERVER=news.ucdavis.edu at the end of the other stuff. Katie wrote: > > 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? > > 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. >From Samuel Merritt: > 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. > 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. __________________________________________________ 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
