tin newsreader on debian lenny

tin newsreader on debian lenny

[Keith Barrett]

I am looking for some help with newsgroup reading.

I have installed tin but am having problems with the setup.

I want to connect to my isp's newsserver and download newsgroup 
articles.  

Not sure if I will need something like leafnode or whether tin can 
connect directly.

At present, I cannot find where I should be putting the server 
information 
If I run tin, I get an error message that newsrc cannot be written.

I have not been able to find a debian news howto so some advice or 
reading suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks

Re: tin newsreader on debian lenny

[Tony Baechler]

Keith Barrett wrote:
> I want to connect to my isp's newsserver and download newsgroup 
> articles.  
>
>   
You should use rtin or tin -r.

> Not sure if I will need something like leafnode or whether tin can 
> connect directly.
>
>   
That depends on if you want to store articles locally or not.  If you 
really want archives of a particular newsgroup, suck or leafnode would 
be a good idea, otherwise it's not necessary.

> At present, I cannot find where I should be putting the server 
> information 
>   
You need to define the NNTPSERVER environment variable.  You might be 
able to pass this on the command line as well, but the above is 
suggested.  You could try "tin -r news.example.com" and see if that works.

> If I run tin, I get an error message that newsrc cannot be written.
>   


Try "touch .newsrc" in your home dir.  If that doesn't work, try "touch 
.tin/newsrc" or similar instead.  You could also manually put the name 
of a newsgroup in there, like:

echo 0.test >.newsrc

Re: tin newsreader on debian lenny

[Alex Snow]

No tin can read directly from your newsserver.  just envoke it as tin 
-r or rtin, and add your isp's news server to /etc/nntpserver.
On Sun, 
Dec 14, 2008 at 11:25:23PM +0000, Keith Barrett wrote:
> I am looking for some help with newsgroup reading.
> 
> I have installed tin but am having problems with the setup.
> 
> I want to connect to my isp's newsserver and download newsgroup 
> articles.  
> 
> Not sure if I will need something like leafnode or whether tin can 
> connect directly.
> 
> At present, I cannot find where I should be putting the server 
> information 
> If I run tin, I get an error message that newsrc cannot be written.
> 
> I have not been able to find a debian news howto so some advice or 
> reading suggestions would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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