On Sat 01:04PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> Putting the name of the server in /etc/nntpserver (/etc/news/server on
> potato) should also work.
>
Thank you. I was running it with the -h option, but I didn't have
to before. I had both above mentioned files in /etc though.
/etc/nntpserver contained news
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 01:05:47AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> When I installed I didn't enter a news server when prompted to. I
> figured I'd be using Netscape to read news. I was wrong. I want
> to try slrn, but now it craps out because it's looking for a
> local news server.
From slrn(1):
INN is way too much of a resource hog to be using on anything but a
dedicated machine. I would suggest that you use newsx or leafnode or
c-news. INN is fine if you have a dedicated machine with a lot of RAM but
for a small network where a system must wear many hats, you are probably
much better
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