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