On 2017-03-29, I R A Darth Aggie  wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:29:56 -0700,
> RRansil , in
> wrote:
>>  I've installed slrn on my RPi B+, but I'm stuck on the next step of
>>  entering NNTPSERVER information. Where/how is that done? I've googled
>>  numerous sites, but can't find any specific Raspberry Pi guidance.
>
> There is nothing about slrn that is Pi specific. Hell, it can be made
> to run on windows!
>
> With bash as your shell, set your NNTPSERVER in your ~/.bashrc like so
> (server name chosen to be consistent with the slrn example file):
>
> export NNTPSERVER='news.doe.com'
>
> If you're in the terminal you can refresh your bash environment via
>
> . ~/.bashrc
> echo $NNTPSERVER
>
> You need a ~/.slrnrc file. If you installed from a proper .deb
> package, you should have this file:
> /usr/share/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz and in there, we see these
> entries under "Server specific settings":
>
> % Tell slrn which newsrc file it should use for which server.
> % Note: This does *not* set the default server; you need to set the
> %       NNTPSERVER environment variable for this.
> %server "news.doe.com" ".jnewsrc-doe"
>
> % If a server requires authentication, add a nnrpaccess line for it.
> % If you leave username and/or password empty, slrn will prompt for it.
> %nnrpaccess "news.doe.com" "john" "secret"
>
> In fact, the easiest thing to do would be the following:
>
> gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz > ~/.slrnrc
>
> then edit your ~/.slrnrc file to point to your news server, and any
> username and/or password required. If you put in the password in the
> file, you may want to do a
>
> chmod go-rwx ~/.slrnrc
>
> to make it unreadable from any accounts not you or root. If it is a
> single user system behind a good firewall, then that's probably an
> "eh".
>
> Once configured, type
>
> slrn
>
> and you should have usenet reading goodness at your finger tips. And
> if you examine the entirety of ~/.slrn there is a lot more that can be
> configured, but can be safely ignored until you need to or want to
> make changes.
>
Sincere thanks to all who replied. I'm posting this from slrn! Special
thanks to IRA Darth Aggie for the "gunzip" suggestion. That saved me a
lot of time. Your help is appreciated.

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