Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> > file, so I'm wondering if the debian inewsinn package puts the > > configuration file somewhere else. Still, I'll try copying the example > > inn.conf and see if it works.) > > Forgot to answer this: There should be a /var/lib/dpkg/info/inewsinn.conffiles file which lists all the configuartion

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean here... are you just referring to the fact that > I can't receive e-mail as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", since "drollden" > isn't actually known to ibm's nameserver? > Yes. > I think i

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-12 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > # user's mail address, if not [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > mail_address= > > > > Okay, that works. (OTOH, I'm not enamoured with tin, so it would be nice > > if I could figure out how to get trn to work.) > > > You should set a line like this in tr

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, > > # user's mail address, if not [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mail_address= > > Okay, that works. (OTOH, I'm not enamoured with tin, so it would be nice > if I could figure out how to get trn to work.) > You should set a line like this in trn as well (after we get your system working). Your [EMAIL

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Trevor Barrie
Amendment to previous message: /sbin/route produces different output when I'm connected. It's Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface ca24l.pq.ca.ibm * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 loopnet *

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Okay, tin works, sort of. It seems it still can't find my hostname since > > my From: lines show up as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but I can manually edit that. > > It's a pain though. > > > > (The file /usr/doc/tin/INSTALL.gz cryptically recommends tha

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > Looks like nn tries a command leafnode doesn't understand (or the syntax > > nn uses is wrong). You could check the rfc about error 502. > > "RFC"? I know FAQs, manpages, HOWTOs and /usr/doc/*, but th

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-10 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Looks like nn tries a command leafnode doesn't understand (or the syntax > nn uses is wrong). You could check the rfc about error 502. "RFC"? I know FAQs, manpages, HOWTOs and /usr/doc/*, but that's a new one to me.:) Where do I find it? > As root

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> Well, dselect says that trn depends on inews, which inewsinn provides and > leafnode doesn't. Just in case I tried forcing a removal of inewsinn, but > when I tried posting I just got an error message along the lines of "inews > not found". > > I also tried installing nn, which doesn't have this

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-04 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > > > I decided to remove all the news-related stuff from my system and started > > over by installing the leafnode, inewsinn, and trn packages (is that > > sufficient?); the message I get now is "Can't get h

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > I decided to remove all the news-related stuff from my system and started > over by installing the leafnode, inewsinn, and trn packages (is that > sufficient?); the message I get now is "Can't get host name, No such file > or directory.". > I just have l

Posting to usenet

1997-11-03 Thread Trevor Barrie
I'm having trouble figuring out how to properly configure my system to allow the sending of usenet messages. After playing with various packages and the instructions in various HOWTOs and man pages, I got to the point where I could read fine, but any attempt to post resulted in something along the