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From: dwadams@surfsouth.com (don adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Newbie Near Death - Needs Help!
Date: 6 Jan 1996 19:34:54 GMT
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Message-ID: <4cmisu$ja8@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: slip166-72-217-98.ga.us.ibm.net
X-Newsreader: NeoLogic News for OS/2 [version: 4.2]
I've been struggling with FreeBSD for three months now and am about ready to
throw in the towel.
My purpose for using FreeBSD is focused. I am trying to set up a news server
to run on a small local network. The news feed will be taken from a PageSat
HS 2000 satellite receiver. The local network will not be live on the
Internet.
I first installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM and tried in
vain to get the INN package running. The INN distribution was on the
CD-ROM. A couple of weeks ago I received the 2.1 version from Walnut Creek.
I have this installed and working over the Ethernet network via TCP/IP. I
can FTP/Telnet, etc. OK. The 2.1 CD-ROM doesn't have the INN package, so I
installed the Cnews package. Now I can't get Cnews up.
One problem is that I can't SU to news or bin so that I can run Cnews
files. I've edited groups, but when I login as root and su bin or su news I
get the following message:
su: /nonexistent: No such file or directory
Any ideas to help with this problem?
What I want to do is to be able to read news over the network with a
newsreader such as FreeAgent under windows or NeoLogic news under OS/2. Do I
need to install the NNTP package from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM just to read
news or is the Cnews package sufficient? I won't be receiving a feed over TCP
or feeding someone else.
The PageSat folks currently only have Unix software available to receive the
news and place it in the spool directory. That's why I need to get this Unix
up. I've compiled their reception program and CHOWN to the proper owner
and group, but when I try to execute the file I invariably get "Command not
found" error messages. Any ideas here?
If and when they get their DOS software going, I can probably get Changi, an
OS/2 based news server package, doing what I need it to do.
Currently, I've got a nice, new high speed satellite receiver with no way to
use it.
Any and all help will be MOST APPRECIATED!
Thanks!
Don
Don Adams <dwadams@surfsouth.com>