Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-08-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-08-01, Dave Hathaway penned: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hathaway) wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of >> news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when >> roadrunner is not jam packed. > > After t

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-08-01 Thread Dave Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hathaway) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when roadrunner > is not jam packed. After too much pain, I dselected cnews+suck and went w

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-30 Thread Dave Hathaway
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I use cnews+suck on Woody, but I do so because I have been using cnews ever > since it came out. It takes quite a bit of fiddling, and I had to > patch suck. I could try to document my configuration for you if you want

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-30 Thread Dave Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hathaway) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Although it is clearly reading the articles and processing them, they > never show up in the file tree of /var/lib/news. Plus, they never > show up in my xnews reader when I connect to my debian box from my > Windoze

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-29, Paul Johnson penned: > --=-=-= > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: >>> I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of >>> news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when >>> roadrunner is not

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread John Hasler
Dave Hathaway writes: > I did look briefly at leafnode during a moment of despair. cnews+suck > looked so easy to configure that I thought I would stick with it. I even > dselect'd leafnode, but ultimately didn't grab it. Maybe I should have. > Maybe I will. I use cnews+suck on Woody, but I do

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Dave Hathaway
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: > > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when > > roadrunner is not jam packed. > >

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Paul Johnson
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: >> I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of >> news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when >> roadrunner is not jam packed. > > I can't answer your actual configuratio

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when > roadrunner is not jam packed. I can't answer your actual configuration questions, but have you looked at leafnode? It seems t

newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Dave Hathaway
I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when roadrunner is not jam packed. After some trial and error, I am pulling the news using: suck news-server.houston.rr.com -c @/etc/suck/suckcommands where suckcommands co