On 11/10/05, Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
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I would have thought it means doing this:
$ slrn -f /home/thufir/.jnewsrc --create
Paul.
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Ah, thanks. Feel a bit silly on that one.
[thufir@localhost ~]$ slrn
slrn 0.9.8.1 [2004-10-07]
Reading startup file /etc/slrn.rc.
You should set the NNTPSERVER environment variable to your server name.
Example (csh): setenv NNTPSERVER my.news.server
Example (sh) : NNTPSERVER='my.news.server' && export NNTPSERVER
For now, I'm going to try "localhost" as the default...
Using newsrc file /home/thufir/.jnewsrc for server localhost.
Connecting to host localhost ...Unable to make connection. Giving up.
slrn fatal error:
Failed to initialize server.
[thufir@localhost ~]$ NNTPSERV='news.made.up' && export NNTPSERVER
[thufir@localhost ~]$ slrn
slrn 0.9.8.1 [2004-10-07]
Reading startup file /etc/slrn.rc.
Using newsrc file /home/thufir/.jnewsrc for server
shawnews.vc.shawcable.net.
Connecting to host
shawnews.vc.shawcable.net ...
Connected to host. Posting ok.
Checking for new groups ...
Checking news ...
[thufir@localhost ~]$ date
Thu Nov 10 15:35:49 EST 2005
[thufir@localhost ~]$
How can I make the NNTPSERVER setting "stick", please? Once I set the
server all is fine, but I want that save that setting between slrn
sessions. It's an environment variable.
-Thufir