Re: Am I using 'sn' in the wrong way?

Brian Schonecker <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
> I've downloaded, compiled, installed and _almost_ got sn working.  I'm up to 
> the ./snntpd command (I've already gotten sn to connect to novell's site and 
> download a list of newsgroups).  
> 
> 'snntpd' looks like it's waiting for input if I run it straight from the 
> command line but a port scan of my system shows nothing listening on port 
> 119.
> 
> Am I expecting too much from 'sn' or am I missing something?

Read The Fine Manual. INSTALL.run describes how to install, and no, you
don't run snntpd directly, unless you speak fluent NNTP. :)

Next read the man pages, starting with 'man sn'. snget is the program that
fetches news.

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