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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: News question
Date: 23 Jun 1997 10:57:52 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33ABBC8C.41C67EA6@arg1.demon.co.uk>,
Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 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).
Any chance of a port submission ? Sounds like a good package.
>> 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.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !