rn doesn't have to complain [was Re: NNTP/RRN help needed]
Scott Leadley
leadley at uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Fri Aug 18 05:46:25 AEST 1989
In article <639 at brazos.Rice.edu> you write:
>Oh yes, two other suggestions.
>Second, you may also want to turn off automatic new newsgroup checking [in rn]
>at this time, in common.h:
>
>/*define FINDNEWNG /* check for new newsgroups on startup */
>#undef FINDNEWNG /* Turn this horrible "feature" off */
>
>
>This annoying "feature" harrasses users with a long list of unavoidable
>requests to add the same nonexistent groups every week or so
Actually, rn will ask you about adding new groups to your .newsrc file
every time that a new group is added. If you have newsgroups in your
active file that don't have directories yet, rn will ask whether you want
to add them EVERY time.
For some reason (looks like misconfiguration when it was installed), 2.11
B inews at our site waits until the first article is recieved to create
the directory. Since inews and rn have different interpretations of what
a missing directory means, it inconveniences the fewest people hack inews
or to manually create the directory when the the newsgroup is created. --
Scott Leadley - leadley at cc.rochester.edu
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