> I thought about using suck to download the news articles I am > interested in as soon as a PPP is up. But how do I post my own > articles back to the net? I would really be grateful if someone > could post his/her working setup.
I use leafnode in conjunction with diald to allow for unattended retrieval and posting of new articles. My setup is as follows: 1) Comment out the commands that Debian sets up in /etc/cron.daily/leafnode. I do this because I want to retrieve more frequently than once a day to balance the load and because I like my postings to go out sometime in the near future. 2) Set up a crontab for user "news" like the one in attachment #1. As root, "crontab -u news -e". This will give you more flexible scheduling. 3) If you look at the attached crontab file, you'll see I run a script called /etc/leafnode.fetch. This script is provided as atttachment #2. Personally, I don't like leafnode's ability to download newsgroups based upon which ones have been read lately. I just want it to download the few I read -- even if I only read them once every two months. Paul Serice ===================================================================== ATTACHMENT #1: crontab for user "news" ===================================================================== # min hr dom moy dow command 0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /etc/leafnode.fetch 35 3 * * * /usr/sbin/texpire ===================================================================== ATTACHMENT #2: /etc/leafnode.fetch ===================================================================== #!/bin/sh # # MY NOTES: leafnode automatically keeps track of which newsgroups # have been requested lately in # /var/spool/news/interesting.groups by "touching" a file # with the same name as the newsgroup. leafnode will not # retrieve news from a newsgroup that has not been # "touched" lately. By running this script right before # "fetch" runs, you'll be able to specify which newsgroups # to read, and you won't have to worry about a newsgroup # being forgotten just because it hasn't been read lately. # # IMPORTANT: This file is automatically run periodically from the # crontab for user "news". # cd /var/spool/news rm -rf interesting.groups mkdir interesting.groups chown news.news interesting.groups chmod 755 interesting.groups cd interesting.groups touch comp.lang.c touch comp.lang.c.moderated touch comp.lang.c++ touch comp.lang.c++.moderated touch comp.os.linux.advocacy touch comp.os.linux.announce touch comp.os.linux.answers touch comp.os.linux.development.apps touch comp.os.linux.development.system touch comp.os.linux.hardware touch comp.os.linux.m68k touch comp.os.linux.misc touch comp.os.linux.networking touch comp.os.linux.setup touch comp.os.linux.x touch comp.os.ms-windows.announce touch comp.os.os2.announce touch comp.protocols.nfs touch comp.protocols.smb touch comp.protocols.time.ntp touch comp.windows.x touch comp.windows.x.announce touch comp.windows.x.apps touch comp.windows.x.i386unix touch comp.windows.x.intrinsics touch comp.windows.x.motif touch rec.humor.funny touch rec.humor.funny.reruns exec /usr/sbin/fetch -v
