I've been scratching my head over this for awhile, tried the miniHowto, readme.suse, faq, etc. but still am having problems. I've had leafnode set up in the past and was able to run fetchnews (as root) without a problem. Currently if I just type "fetchnews" (as root) the prog goes to my newsserver and gets the grouplist but no articles. When I type "fetchnews -f" it gets the grouplist and articles as it should. It just bothers me that I need to add this flag now when it wasn't necessary in the past. I'm using suse 7.2pro, and the version of leafnode that came w/ the dist. Another question also came up when I tried to setup the latest version of leafnode. I did ./configure, make, make install. When I ran the program It told me that "localhost" was not good enough, I need a "fully qualified domain name in /etc/hosts". How do I do this for a dialup connection with server assigned address? For the time being I went back to the SuSE version of leafnode which doesn't have this requirement. -- dh