Subject: pine 3.93 & usenet server locally (NOT NNTP)

From: [email-masked] (Fuzzy)
Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:14:56 -0400

I have innd runing a local news server, and have installed pine 3.92, I
configured my userid's .pinerc with all the things it needs to find my
local news setup, but it fails saying we dont have an NNTP server defined?

shouldn't it just call inews to post locally? or am I supposed to set it 
up as a NNTP connection to my own news server?

[excepts showing local definition of various usenet parameters and 
locations]

# than used for NNTP posting. Examples: News *[] or News *{host3/nntp}[]
# Syntax: optnl-label *{news-host/protocol}[]
news-collections=News *[]

# Full path and name of NEWSRC file
newsrc-path=.lnewsrc

# Path and filename of news configation's active file.
# The default is typically "/usr/lib/news/active".
news-active-file-path=/usr/lib/news/active

# Directory containing system's news data.
# The default is typically "/usr/spool/news"
news-spool-directory=/news

thnaks...

				Fuz

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From: [email-masked] (Brian L. Heess)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:14:52 -0400

>up as a NNTP connection to my own news server?

I have it working this way:

nntp-server=nntp.commline.com  [one name of MY machine]
news-collections=""  [the above set this, at least in 3.92]

Also, I have the environment var NNTPSERVER set.

Hope this helps...(mine works)

-Brian
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:48:21 -0700 (PDT)

> up as a NNTP connection to my own news server?

Posting via local inews is not enabled by default in the Pine
distribution.  To turn it on, uncomment the definition in the
pine/osdep/os-???.h file for your system and rebuild Pine.  Pine will
then try inews if there is no nntp-server defined.

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From: Fuzzy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:55:56 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, David L Miller wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:48:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
> To: Fuzzy <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: pine 3.93 & usenet server locally (NOT NNTP)
>

found it... I made the change, then did build clean, and build lnx.

i saw a couple of messages but it seems to be compiling things ok?

ln: c-client: File exists
ln: imapd: File exists

did build clean forget to unlink something?

I plan to impliment quota for my user $HOME partition/filesystems, is it
safe to compile in support, even tho at present its not setup? I'm hoping
the next stable kernel release 2.0.0 or 1.2.14 (or whatever) will have the
needed kernel support for it. I tried to use the available patches for
1.2.13 but it failed to apply correctly.  I think its because this kernel
source tree already was patched in support of the kernel itself being in
ELF format.

I figured I could use pine.conf to setup default values for the
whereabouts of /usr/lib/news/active and /usr/spool/news/* and
the ~/.lnewsrc, (different .newsrc for local spool article numbers),
file.

thnaks again

				Fuzzy
				Sys Admin, ASARian.org