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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!ais.net!news.dgsys.com!sloth.swcp.com!not-for-mail From: crs@quail.swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: News question Date: 20 Jun 1997 19:24:28 -0600 Organization: Just me, Los Alamos, NM Lines: 55 Message-ID: <5ofagc$6uk@quail.swcp.com> Reply-To: crs@swcp.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lappp11.swcp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43264 If you wouldn't mind, a Cc: to crs@swcp.com would be nice in case I get behind in the news group again. Here's what I have: FreeBSD box running 2.1.5. I'm using user ppp with demand dialing. I have cron go out during the night and bring back any mail that's accumulataded at my ISP, run sendmail in case there are any queued messages, and synchronize my time with NIST. Here's what I would like to do: Set things up so that cron will go to my ISP and retrieve a limited number of news grousp. This one (obviously :), rec.hunting, and a few other groups. Not much volume--only a small fraction of what's out there. The problem is that I've never set up anything like that before. I don't know what is the best way to go or how to set it up once I've decided. I've heard of slurp and suck. but I can't find any information with enough detail or background to allow me to decide which of those or others may be the better choice, much less how to set things up. I know that there are probably configuation files that I need but not what they all are, where they need to go, or what must go into them. I do know that simply doing pkg_add ..../slurp.... slurp ISP isn't enough...... :) So--has anyone done this? If so would you mind sharing what you did? What are the prerequisites (other software the slurp or whatever depends upon being available)? Configuration files? What? Where? What's in them? Running the news-getter manually? Running it from cron? Gotchas? Thanks for any help you may be able to offer. -- Best regards, Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby Los Alamos, NM "I'm the NRA!" crs@swcp.com www.swcp.com/~crs Life Member since 1965