From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 10:19:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA08018 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 10:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA08013 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 10:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA20814 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:21:19 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa05820; 8 Oct 96 13:24 EDT Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:24:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Don Yuniskis cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: CNews setup In-Reply-To: <199610081528.IAA05433@seagull.rtd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Don Yuniskis wrote: > > > 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... ? Not many - and the end result is more worth it