Glyn, hi, no luck, comments below.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:36:08PM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote: > 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? Yes. Also the /var/spool/slrnpull/ directory and subdirectories are still there. There is still /etc/cron.daily/slrnpull (not sure what to do here) and /etc/news/slrnpull.conf which I will delete and in the /etc/news/slrn.rc I have set the three set_spool_ ..... lines to be /var/lib/news /var/spool/news /var/spool/news/over.view which I got from the /usr/share/docs/slrn I also have a .slrnrc file in my ~/ directory .... but I fear this is not the problem > > ,---- > | 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 instantaneous > # chgrp -R news /var/spool/news took a while, but done > > 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) done. However the info must be somewhere as it only collects any new groups and is done in a few seconds. In previous attempts there were long downloads but then as I wrote, the info evaporated and I could not find it. > > > ,---- > | SLRN > `---- > $ slrn Right. but no groups. Big L, a * for all, and nothing shows. I look in /var/spool/news but fail to find any news. There -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
