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Hi, On Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 20:56 +0200, Jim Hatridge wrote:
Hi all;
I know that this is a silly question, but I have no idea where to even start setting up a news reader. I mean I have tin, rtin, and pine. But how do I set up a connection to a news server (ie news.uni-stuttgart.de)?
Can someone give me a step by step list?
To use news.uni-stuttgart.de as your news server you could simply do export NNTPSERVER=news.uni-stuttgart.de and connect to your ISP. Then launch rtin. If you want to use Pine choose Setup/Config in its main menu and change nntp-server to news.uni-stuttgart.de. The disadvantage here is that you have to be online to read news (I wouldn't do this in Germany, it's just waste of money). If you want to read news offline you'll have to set up a local news server. IMHO Leafnode is quite easy to install (it has the requested step by step list). You can get it at <A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/news/readers/leafnode-1.4-7.src.elf.tar.gz"><A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/news/readers/leafnode-1.4-7.src.elf.tar.gz</A">ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/news/readers/leafnode-1.4-7.src.elf.tar.gz Ciao Stefan -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e