From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 2 23:52:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08065 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08059 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA22685; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:52:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:52:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: mail account cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news In-Reply-To: <199806020318.WAA04650@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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