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Questions:
1. Why can't I post when using slrnpull?
2. How do I get a full list of newsgroups?
Answers:
1. Why can't I post when using slrnpull?
In order to post an article via slrnpull, slrn needs to place the
article in the slrnpull out.going directory. Two things are
necessary for this to happen:
a. slrn must know that you are using the slrnpull out.going
directory for posts. Make sure the line
set use_slrnpull 1
is in your .slrnrc file. This indicates to slrn that the
news spool is an slrnpull news spool.
b. You must have write permission to the out.going directory
in order for slrn to place your article in that directory.
The permissions may be changed via the Unix command:
chmod ugo+rwxt out.going
Do not put this in your .slrnrc file!
2. How do I get a full list of newsgroups?
You will have to go online for that. Run slrn as follows:
slrn --nntp -h YOUR.NEWS.SERVER -a -f groups.dat -create
This will start slrn and down-load the groups and put them in the
file groups.dat. Before actually doing this, modify your .slrnrc
(or slrn.rc) file to set
set write_newsrc_flags 0
so that all groups will be written out to groups.dat.