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#! rnews 2424 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!bulb.garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!europa.clark.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!server.arg.sj.co.uk!nobody From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: News question Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:35:40 +0100 Message-ID: <33ABBC8C.41C67EA6@arg1.demon.co.uk> References: <5ofagc$6uk@quail.swcp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: crs@swcp.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43272 Charlie Sorsby wrote: > 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 If this is for a personal machine (or a server for a small group of users), I would strongly recommend leafnode over the alternatives such as slurp/suck + Cnews/INN. The main advantage of leafnode is that it is extremely easy to set up and maintain - its configuration file has precisely 3 entries to configure! It automatically 'learns' which groups you have been reading lately and fetches them. It can be found at: ftp://ftp.troll.no/freebies/leafnode/leafnode-1.0.tar.gz It is written for linux, but compiles out of the box on FreeBSD; the one thing that requires hacking is the 'install' target in the makefile (easily solved by copying out the relevant lines into a shell script, or doing it by hand). > Running the news-getter manually? You can of course always do this if desperate for a fix of news.. > Running it from cron? This is more customary.