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TRN News

Postby Dr-NiKoN » Fri Dec 21, 2001 4:44 am

I installed trn and the appropriate lib´s, but when I try to start it I get this message:
Can't open /usr/lib/news/active
Couldn't open any newsrc groups. Is your access file ok?

Well, I have no /usr/lib/news/active, only a ~/News/ which is empty.

And there is no man page.
trn.sourceforge.net has no documentation either.

I found some stuff here:
http://advisor.uchicago.edu/docs/unix/usenet/trn/
but, it seems to me like I'm missing files that the installation/first run should create..

Could someone enlighten me?

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Re: TRN News

Postby capvideo » Thu Dec 27, 2001 10:43 pm

If you look in /usr/local/lib/trn you will find a file called 'access.def'.

Go to the bottom of that file, and add:

[default]
NNTP Server = news

(replace 'news' with whatever the NNTP server is that you are using).

That seems to work for me. You may have to do more with that file. It looks like it is vaguely self-documenting.

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