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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



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