tin newsreader on debian lenny

[Tony Baechler]

Keith Barrett wrote:
> I want to connect to my isp's newsserver and download newsgroup 
> articles.  
>
>   
You should use rtin or tin -r.

> Not sure if I will need something like leafnode or whether tin can 
> connect directly.
>
>   
That depends on if you want to store articles locally or not.  If you 
really want archives of a particular newsgroup, suck or leafnode would 
be a good idea, otherwise it's not necessary.

> At present, I cannot find where I should be putting the server 
> information 
>   
You need to define the NNTPSERVER environment variable.  You might be 
able to pass this on the command line as well, but the above is 
suggested.  You could try "tin -r news.example.com" and see if that works.

> If I run tin, I get an error message that newsrc cannot be written.
>   


Try "touch .newsrc" in your home dir.  If that doesn't work, try "touch 
.tin/newsrc" or similar instead.  You could also manually put the name 
of a newsgroup in there, like:

echo 0.test >.newsrc