From: jad@nyama.sky.org (Jose Dias) Subject: Re: CNews troubles. Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1993 16:25:45 GMT
In article <1993Mar4.162002.15242@nwnexus.WA.COM> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
>grettir@pension.provo.ut.us (Grettir Asmundarson) writes:
>
>>I have been trying to exchange news from my DOS/Waffle box at home and
>>my Linux machine at work. I have the two systems communicating with
>>UUCP, but after they transfer news and uuxqt is run, I just find a
>>number of compressed news batches in my /usr/spool/news/in.coming
>>directory. I've scoured O'Reilly's "Managing UUCP and Usenet" but have
>>not been able to find the cause of the problem.
>
>you need to call /usr/local/lib/news/bin/input/newsrun (whew!) to
>process the incoming batches.
On most systems it's: /usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun
or as news
${NEWSBIN}/input/newsrun
There should be a line in news' crontab that periodically calls newsrun
or you can let rnews invoke newsrun for immediate processing.
>
>
>>Is there something unique to the Linux implementation of CNews that I
>>need to know to get news uncompressed and distributed to the
>
>there's absolutely nothing unique to Linux regarding C-news.
Good!
>
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> ------------------- Vince Skahan ------ vince@halcyon.com ----------------
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