From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 08:28:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA02438 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:28:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02433 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA05433; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:28:31 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199610081528.IAA05433@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: CNews setup To: shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:28:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Hovey" at Oct 8, 96 11:16:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm trying to setup CNews and finding some of the intents > > of the various configuration files a bit confusing. Is there > > someone who can explain/clarify their purposes a bit more? > > > If there isnt some burning need for cnews I would recommend you use inn > instead. I haven't gotten around to rebuilding the inn port yet. I was just methodically going through the ports and cnews tripped me up. Silly little issues like "mailname" vs. "whoami" vs. hostname(), etc. I suspect there will be similar issues under inn... ? --don