Re: Where should groups.dat be located?

* Larry Alkoff <[email protected]> [06-06-07 15:33]:
 [...]
> > 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
> > 
> 
> 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?

an error in my part for the example, s/b ".newsrc".
Explanation:  I have several scripts to different nntpsources, ie:
slrn.rr, that allow me to not type the entire cl line for access.  The
prepended rr defines news-server.indy.rr.com.

>  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
> 
> 
> 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

looks like the route to the executable, slrnpull.  put the output from
    which slrnpull
there.  For me it would be "slrnpull=/usr/bin/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?

per TFM, --expire      Expire (remove) old messages from the spool, but do
                       not fetch news.
	      
you *really* would benefit from reading the manuals, "man slrn" and
"man slrnpull" and looking at the command-line helps, "slrn[pull] --help"
and comparing the examples included with the distribution:

/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/README
/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/README.offline
/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/SETUP
/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/score
/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/setgid.txt
/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/slrn.rc
/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/slrnpull.conf
/usr/share/doc/packages/slrn/slrnpull/slrnpull.sh


btw, if you are not on dial-up, slrnpull is rather excessive.

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