Re: Where should groups.dat be located?

Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Larry Alkoff <[email protected]> [06-06-07 14:08]:
>> I'm using slrn and slrnpull and have spent several days configuring them.
>>
>> When I get the list of groups, I see them in the slrn window, subscribe 
>> to a group, then quit slrn.
>> The list of groups doesn't appear next time I start slrn, probably 
>> because the groups.dat file is in the wrong location.  Groups.dat and 
>> groups.dat.time are being put in /usr/local/bin where the script below runs.
>>
>>
>> To get the list of groups I first make sure
>> set write_newsrc_flags 0
>> is in ~/.slrnrc
>>
>> and then issus
>> slrn --nntp -h news.west.earthlink.net -a -f groups.dat --create
>>
>> which should start slrn and download the groups and put them in the file 
>> groups.dat.
>>
>> I presume that the '-f groups.dat' should have a path but have no idea 
>> what the path should be.
> 
> man slrn
> 
> 14:31 wahoo:~ > slrn --help
> Usage: slrn [--inews] [--nntp ...] [--spool] OPTIONS
> -a              Use active file for getting new news.
> -f newsrc-file  Name of the newsrc file to use.
> -C[-]           [Do not] use colors.
> -Dname          Add 'name' to list of predefined preprocessing tokens.
> -d              Get new text descriptions of each group from server.
>                  Note: This may take a LONG time to retrieve this information.
>                  The resulting file can be several hundred Kilobytes!
> -i init-file    Name of initialization file to use (default: .slrnrc)
> -k              Do not process score file.
> -k0             Process score file but inhibit expensive scores.
> -m              Force XTerm mouse reporting
> -n              Do not check for new groups.  This usually results in
>                  a faster startup.
> -w              Wait for key before switching to full screen mode
> -w0             Wait for key (only when warnings / errors occur)
> --create        Create a newsrc file by getting list of groups from server.
> --debug FILE    Write debugging information to FILE
> --help          Print this usage.
> --kill-log FILE Keep a log of all killed articles in FILE
> --version       Show version and supported features
> 
> NNTP mode has additional options; use "slrn --nntp --help" to display them.
> 
> 
> 
> 14:34 wahoo:~ > env | grep -i nntp
> NNTPSERVER=news-server.indy.rr.com
> 
> slrn -f ~/.newsrc -i ~/.slrnrc -C -h news-server.indy.rr.com --create
> 
> then
> 
> slrn -f ~/.rrnewsrc -i ~/.slrnrc -C -h news-server.indy.rr.com
> 
> 
> Note the paths.
> If this example doesn't help, ask again.
> 


Thanks for the help Patrick.

I have sucessfully created a ~/.newsrc from your --create line above
and subscribed to a single newsgroup.  A nice step forward.

What does the second line containing 'rrnewsrc' do?

 From my reading, the next step would be to get the headers for which I 
have customized a 'slrnpull.sh' script from someone else.

Would you please give it a sanity check?


#!/bin/sh

# I run this file from cron every night to pull a few newsgroups from my
# news server.  It does the following:
#
#     1.  Runs slrnpull in expire mode to expire old articles
#     2.  Starts up ppp via a ppp-on script (not provided)
#     3.  Runs slrnpull to grab articles from the server
#     4.  Turns off ppp via a ppp-off script (not provided)

dir=/var/spool/slrnpull/news
server=news.west.earthlink.net

# I'm not sure what to put in the next line:
# ?? slrnpull=/home/john/src/slrn/src/objs/slrnpull

umask 022

# Before getting new articles, perform expiration.
$slrnpull -d $dir --expire

# I don't think this last line is working and don't understand
'perform expiration'.   Will I die?

Larry

-- 
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Linux

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