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Index of Subjects On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Kevin_Georgison wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:46:57 -0300 > From: Kevin_Georgison <keving@freenet.mb.ca> > Reply-To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca > To: Technical Services Software Team <software@freenet.mb.ca> > Cc: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: NNTP server in Pine > > Will a setting in the NNTP server field of Pine be ignored and the > one defined for the system (winnie or pooh) be used instead? I am > asking is this field in Pine's setup disabled? > > Is this the case for Chebucto too? If so where can I find > documentation on such questions? http://www.washington.edu/pine/ has a lot of useful info, and will even provide a first cut at your system-wide pine.conf and pine.conf.fixed files, through http://www.washington.edu/pine/config/index.html Bear in mind those are for the latest and greatest (3.96) version. We are testing/debugging a 3.95 with internationalization, which should be included in our 1.0 distribution; it should be similar. I think we set up default versions during install, as we use automated testing that needs a working system. In particular, the pine.conf.fixed can supply restrictions, and pine.conf can supply default values. So if you specify the news host in pine.conf.fixed, the user cannot change it. But if you specify it instead in pine.conf, the user will have your default but be able to change it. Or if you leave it out of both, then the default will be no access to news thru Pine, until the user configures it. CCN uses tin as the main news reader, and it is invoked through a script that fixes the news host, but we allow the users to specify a different newshost (or the same one) through Pine. As long as the newshost will accept access from your site, the choice is yours. Hope this helps... Ed Dyer Assistant Postmaster <postmaster@chebucto.ns.ca> Chebucto Community Network > > _________________________________________________________ > Kevin Georgison E-Mail: mailto:keving@freenet.mb.ca > http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~georgkev > > Technical Services Committee > Blue Sky Community Networks of Manitoba Inc. > http://www.freenet.mb.ca > _________________________________________________________ > >
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