From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 05:21:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA07115 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 05:21:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA07098 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 05:21:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04288; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:16:04 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA15638; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:21:07 GMT Message-ID: <19980206132106.49746@iii.co.uk> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:21:06 +0000 To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: leafnode and netscape References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: ; from Leif Neland on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 01:40:48PM +0100 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 01:40:48PM +0100, Leif Neland wrote: > I can read news from localhost in pine, but when I try to get the list of > newsgroups from localhost in Netscape 4.0x, I get this message from netscape: > Server responded: Syntax error. > > Clues? Pass, sorry. > Oh, btw: "fetch" from the leafnode-package, is it supposed to be started by > leafnode, or run periodically from cron, or what? Depends. If you've got a permananent connection you can run it from cron. Actually, you can do that with dial up as well. However, I don't trust myself enough to leave the machine unattended with the modem turned on when I'm the one paying the bill, so I run fetch manually once or twice a day. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- . . . and relax