> "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > What's the value of your NNTPSERVER environment variable? What about > | > the value of gnus-default-nntp-server in Emacs after you start gnus? > | > You can add the following to your ~/.gnus file: > | > | Hmm...NNTPSERVER isn't set :(. Where do I set it (I guess .bash_profile > | isn't much good, and won't help the rest of my users)? > > If you want it global then in /etc/profile put > > NNTPSERVER=servername;export NNTPSERVER > > and in /etc/csh.cshrc put > > setenv NNTPSERVER servername > > obviously replacing "servername" with whatever is appropriate. > > That should do the trick. This is for hamm, but the /etc/profile is > pretty much universal, while the global CSH file may vary.
I did all of that, and now it says no more unread newsgroups, even though if I then read trn there's quite a lot of unread news :(( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
