Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:28:48PM +0200, inksi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now I have really stuffed up my news system. :(
>>
>> Iniatially my potatoe box had the dialup utilities selected by
>> tasksel all installed. But there seemed to be no news reader.
>>
>> 1. I then looked to installing a suitable offline news reader.
>> 2. I thought that slrn would do the job
>> 3. I ignored advice to use leafnode and installed slrnpull because
>> the documentation claimed it was simpler for small installation
>> 4. Things were not looking good from many aspects so..
>> 5. When I noticed that fetchmail was running and that this was part
>> of the leafnode setup i used dselect and removed them.
>> 6. When things still did not function correctly I removed slrn and
>> slrnpull and reinstalled them (years of M$ conditioning asserting
>> itself there)
>> 7. Now it still does not function correctly and in addition we have
>> other problems - to whit
>
> and then I removed slrnpull and put leafnode back..........
So you have slrn and leafnode now, yes?
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| Leafnode
`----
You had permission problems wth slrnpull. Leafnode puts articles and
other info into /var/spool/news. The permissions on that directory and
subdirectories should be _news.news_
# chown -R news /var/spool/news
# chgrp -R news /var/spool/news
Now check out your /etc/news/leafnode/config file, adjust the two
mandatory lines at the beginning. All the options are self-explanatory, I
think.
As root do /usr/sbin/fetchnews -vv That will bring down the list of
current newsgroups from your server (a 2Mb download, probably)
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| SLRN
`----
Now run slrn!
hth
Glyn
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