I' m trying to configure C-News and Suck to download articles from a remote host and browse them offline with Tin but I have many problems. When i try to make a "sucknewsrc" typing "suck -A -hl localhost" from root, I get the following: Attempting to connect to localhost Using Port 119 Official host name: localhost Alias Voyager Address: 127.0.0.1 Connected to localhost 200 Voyager NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.12.1 (1 Jan 1995) ready at Sat Apr 18 23:21:45 1998 (posting ok). Loading active file from localhost No sucknewsrc to read, creating Adding new groups from local active file to sucknewsrc New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: control New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: junk New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: news.announce.newusers New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: it.comp.linux Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.23 seconds 0 Articles to download No articles Closed connection to localhost After this, I go to /var/lib/suck/ but sucknewsrc was not found nor read nor updated (as you see above) and no other "sucknewsrc" has been created. The only thing it writes is a "suck.newrc" in the directory from where I typed the command above. So I' ve edited /var/lib/suck/sucknewsrc by hand entering newsgroup names by hand but suck does not seem to find it. What did I miss? Do I have to run all suck processes as user news staying in directory /var/lib/suck? Which command do I have to type to start news downloading? "/var/lib/suck/get.news.rnews"? As user news? I' ve edited /var/lib/suck/get.news.rnews but what should I write in "BASEDIR= # base directory for suck rpost and scripts"?? Suck executable is in /usr/bin Rpost is in /usr/bin Scripts... which scripts? I' ve put get.news.rnews and other things in /usr/lib/suck. Which value should I write? Lastly I tried to run "suck -A -hl localhost" in /var/lib/suck/ as user news and I got the following: news@Voyager:/var/lib/suck > suck -A -hl localhost /var/lib/suck/cola: No such file or directory Attempting to connect to localhost Using Port 119 Official host name: localhost Alias Voyager Address: 127.0.0.1 Connected to localhost 200 Voyager NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.12.1 (1 Jan 1995) ready at Sun Apr 19 00:29:59 1998 (posting ok). Loading active file from localhost Reading current sucknewsrc Adding new groups from local active file to sucknewsrc New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: control New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: junk Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.23 seconds 0 Articles to download Processing Supplemental List Supplemental List Processed, 1 articles added, 1 articles to download Deduping Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.00 seconds Deduped, 1 items remaining, 0 dupes removed. Processing History File Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.00 seconds Processed history, 0 dupes removed Total articles to download: 1 ***Unexpected response to command, head <cola-liw-809989529-6999-1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> 430 No article by message-id <cola-liw-809989529-6999-1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>, sorry. 89 Bytes received in 0 mins 0.09 secs, BPS = 1022.1 Closed connection to localhost Again, sucknewsrc is not modified even permissions would allow it. What' s "/var/lib/suck/cola"? As I' ve never tried to download news from remote hosts, what' s that "cola-liw-809989529-6999-1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi"? /var/log/suck.errlog is empty. In /var/log/news I get the following error: Apr 19 00:54:00 localhost nntpd[21231]: list: fopen /var/lib/news/newsgroups: No such file or directory What can I do? I' ve already read man pages and I' m more confused than before... Please, help me. Thanks in advance. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e