[S.u.S.E. Linux] C-News problem
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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
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