Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-18 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The files in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups are the groups that will be > downloaded next time fetch runs. That's strictly correct, but let me expand on it a little. When fetch sees e.g. interesting.groups/comp.os.linux.advocacy, it reads all new article

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 09:55:20AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Oct 16, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote > > The big catch is that you have to edit some files to alter which > newsgroups you download and I also never seem to see which new groups are > created. The files in /var/spool/news/interesting

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Oct 16, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote > Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I now use inn and newsx [ ... ] > > INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks > everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET > using a Unix-like file system. The thing

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and > > that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file). > > > > But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post. > > No

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Gustaf Erikson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see > lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk. I don't want this. If you want comp.*.advocacy and do not not want cros

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I now use inn and newsx [ ... ] INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET using a Unix-like file system. --Arnt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and > that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file). > > But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post. Not really. You can use inews if you like. Or you can use a news reader lik

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:30:14PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote > > Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote: > > > > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, > > > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/new

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote > Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote: > > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, > > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see > > lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk. > > That's

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm having trouble setting up leafnode to read news. > > I installed leafnode w/o problems, followed the configuration > described in the README and README.debian files, as well as an article > in Linux Gazette #9. This articl