Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:52:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: mail account <freebsd@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980602235140.22038f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806020318.WAA04650@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, mail account wrote: > right now i have to edit /usr/local/etc/nntpserver for the news sserver > i want to browse but my users want to each use a different server > is this possible? > > > what do i change to make it so one user can run "nn" for a certain > news server and another user can run "nn" for another server? Have them set the enviroment variable NNTPSERVER to the desired server. For *csh shells: setenv NNTPSERVER news.domain.com for sh-derived shells: NNTPSERVER=news.domain.com export NNTPSERVER Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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