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.......... > > It wants rnews, and this is nowhere to be found on the machine > except in /usr/lib/ , nor can I find it in dselect. > > The main problem before stuffing it all up was that invoking slrn > brought up a host of messages that it could not create directories > like /var/spool/slrnpull/news/my/news/group thus anything downloaded > seemed to evaporate into thin air and was not to be found under > /var/spool > > What I first need to do is to ensure that I have everything on board > that I should have, and I suppose that means rnews. > > Running tasksel again merely tells me that I have the latest version > of the dialup package installed, so it isn't going to fill in the > blanks. I don't want to remove the dialup package and start again as > that would break the email connection. > > Can somebody please hold my hand and lead me down the yellow brick > road please? > > On-list please. > > :) > > -- > Ian Balchin > http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables > This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
