On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:59:46PM +0300, Riku Saikkonen wrote:
> If you're concerned about security, you can restrict connections to
> the leafnode server to be allowed only from the same host, if you
> wish. See the hosts_access(5) manual page.
Indeed, the package does this by default.
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On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:01:49PM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote:
> > Any particular reason not to use NNTP?
> Speed, pure speed. my first idea was to use nntp, but the Gnus manual
> says that using a local spool is recommended for speed reasons. Nntp
> works well, though. I guess I' just have
Stephan Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>too. I set the follwing variables in my ~/.gnus-file to use the local
>spool, rather than use nntp to localhost
>
>(setq nnspool-spool-directory "/var/spool/news")
Leafnode is supposed to be used via its NNTP server, and doesn't work
very well, if at a
> Any particular reason not to use NNTP?
Speed, pure speed. my first idea was to use nntp, but the Gnus manual
says that using a local spool is recommended for speed reasons. Nntp
works well, though. I guess I' just have to switch.
> Leafnode's nearest equivalent to an active file is
> /var/
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:18:57AM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote:
> too. I set the follwing variables in my ~/.gnus-file to use the local
> spool, rather than use nntp to localhost
Any particular reason not to use NNTP?
> Now when I start up, Gnus complains that it cannot find the active
> file.
Hi everyone,
last night I set up leafnode on my home system (Potato as of two days
ago) in order to retrieve news from my ISP (works like a charm).
At work I use Gnus as my news reader, and I'd like to use it at home,
too. I set the follwing variables in my ~/.gnus-file to use the local
spool, r
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The files in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups are the groups that will be
> downloaded next time fetch runs.
That's strictly correct, but let me expand on it a little.
When fetch sees e.g. interesting.groups/comp.os.linux.advocacy, it
reads all new article
On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 09:55:20AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Oct 16, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote
>
> The big catch is that you have to edit some files to alter which
> newsgroups you download and I also never seem to see which new groups are
> created.
The files in /var/spool/news/interesting
On Oct 16, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote
> Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I now use inn and newsx [ ... ]
>
> INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks
> everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET
> using a Unix-like file system.
The thing
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and
> > that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file).
> >
> > But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post.
>
> No
Gustaf Erikson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus,
> I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see
> lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk. I don't want this.
If you want comp.*.advocacy and do not not want cros
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I now use inn and newsx [ ... ]
INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks
everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET
using a Unix-like file system.
--Arnt
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Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and
> that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file).
>
> But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post.
Not really. You can use inews if you like. Or you can use a news reader lik
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:30:14PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote
> > Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote:
>
> > > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus,
> > > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/new
On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote
> Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote:
> > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus,
> > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see
> > lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk.
>
> That's
Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having trouble setting up leafnode to read news.
>
> I installed leafnode w/o problems, followed the configuration
> described in the README and README.debian files, as well as an article
> in Linux Gazette #9. This articl
Hello all,
I'm having trouble setting up leafnode to read news.
I installed leafnode w/o problems, followed the configuration
described in the README and README.debian files, as well as an article
in Linux Gazette #9. This article told me to log into my news server,
run 'fetch' as root, start a
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