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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 1997 12:05:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, graphite@taurus.bekkoame.or.jp
Subject:   Re: cannot make suck work
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970321120155.14793A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <199703211723.AAA01734@vas.tomsk.su>

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On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Victor A. Sudakov wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I have installed suck from the ports collection of FreeBSD 2.1.6
> 
> I created the /usr/local/etc/sucknewsrc file which looks like this
> 
> alt.fan.tolkien -1
> rec.arts.books.tolkien -1
> relcom.education -1
> relcom.fido.ru.unix -1

If you read the suck man page, I believe you'll find that -1 means to
update the pointers only, don't download any articles.  setting the number
to 1 instead should download all articles still on the server.





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