jeg7e@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (John E. Gefaell) (03/09/90)
Help! I've run a DOS based BBS for 5 years, but shut it down and put in ESIX SVR3.2. I've got UUCP running no problem and am polling my mail feed hourly. I've got a seperate machine for my news feed, and it's ready to go. I've just picked up cnews and rn from uunet. BUT, I've got no idea how to go about installing it. There are questions in rn's configure program that I don't know how to answer (and the defaults didn't work) and when I extract the cnews tar it makes a bunch of directories but fails to extract the files. HELP, I am a real quick learner, and if someone could call me voice at (804)979-9317 ANY TIME AT ALL (CALL COLLECT!) I'd be extremely grateful. It won't take too much of your time I promise, I just need to get going in the right direction here. THANKS! I'm posting this from the machine at work, btw. Call NOW, Operators are standing by! . :
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (03/09/90)
In article <1352@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> jeg7e@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (John E. Gefaell) writes: >how to go about installing it. There are questions in rn's configure >program that I don't know how to answer (and the defaults didn't work) >and when I extract the cnews tar it makes a bunch of directories but >fails to extract the files. HELP, I am a real quick learner, and if someone The cnews extraction problem is that you need to specify -o on the tar extracting options. I compiled and ran rn without any problems. What questions are you having trouble with? -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170