Re: Noffle with tin

At 11:38 2004.07.01., Jim Hague wrote:
>On 01-Jul-2004 Balas Mark wrote:
> > I am using tin for reading news and I tried to use it with noffle. I
> > successfully configured noffle to download some articles from a 
> newsgroup I
> > regulary read (in "full" mode) and saved them in /var/spool/noffle.
> >
> > I tried to configure tin to use this spool: I changed spool dir
> > /etc/tin/tin.defaults to the directory mentioned above, but tin does not
> > seem to recognise the articles or the group.
>
>Short explanation:

Thank you for your explanations, they were really helpful in understanding 
the problem. However, still did not succeed; I could really appreciate if 
you could help a bit more, if you can.


>You need to use 'tin -r' or 'rtin' with Noffle, and either put the name of the
>machine running Noffle in /etc/nntpserver or in an environment variable
>NNTPSERVER. In your case, Noffle is on the same machine as tin, so 'localhost'
>as the machine name is fine. Try this:
>
>$ export NNTPSERVER=localhost
>$ tin -r


I tried it; tin gave me this answer:

Reading config file...
release 20020311 ("Toxicity") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-2002 Iain Le

Connecting to localhost...

Leafnode 1.9.19, pleased to meet you!

Reading keymap file...

Reading input history file...

Reading groups from active file...
Can't open /var/lib/news/active

And then it exits.


Thanks in advance,


Mark Balas




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