Re: How to move a tin installation

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:51:34PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I want to move my tin newsreading from a remote machine where I have a
> Linux shell login to my home Linux machine as I now have broadband.
> 
> I copied the following files across from my $HOME directory on the
> remote machine to the $HOME directory on my home machine:-
> 
>     .newsrc
>     .newsauth 
>     .tin (recursively, all contents)
> 
> ... and it doesn't work.
> 
> When I run tin it flashes almost instantly through all the messages
> about 'Authorised' and "Reading file xxx" etc. and then displays all
> my newsgroup names with 'D' against them.
> 
> What have I forgotten?
> 
I found the answer, I'd forgotten to set the NNTPSERVER environment
variable and my home version of tin was looking for a non-existent
local mail spool.  All sorted now!  :-)

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Chris Green ([email protected])

    "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."