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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>