From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 11:05:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA11548 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:05:27 -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 LAA11535 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21356 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:05:14 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199610081805.LAA21356@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: CNews setup To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:05:13 -0700 (MST) 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... ? > > Not many - and the end result is more worth it Great! Anyone care to answer my *original* question?? --don