[vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

[Katie]

Well, I did everything suggested, but when I put in tin -r it connects to
news.ucdavis.edu, but then gives me:

servers active-file contains no newsgroups
Exiting

and it takes me back to the command line.  Does this have to do with what
I did?

There was already stuff in the .bashrc file, but I added the line
NNTPSERVER=news.ucdavis.edu at the end of the other stuff.

Katie wrote:
> > I don't have an /etc/news/server file.  I tried to create one, but it
> > didn't work.  Most likely I did it wrong.  How would I create
> > /etc/news/server?

> > I don't know how to find ~katie/.bashr.  When I
> > put it at the command line I got /home/katie/.bashrc not a directory.

>From Samuel Merritt:
> What to do is: 
> 1) Become root. (in a terminal, run "su" and then feed it your 
> password)
> 2) Using your favorite text editor, open /etc/news/server. (e.g. "pico
> /etc/news/server")
> 3) Put in the appropriate text (as described by Bill Kendrick,
> below). 
> 4) Save the file and exit.
> Using your favorite text editor, open ".bashrc". 

> To set the environment variable VARIABLENAME, put in the line
> export VARIABLENAME=value

> Note that this won't take effect immediately; bash only reads ~/.bashrc
> when it first starts, so any terminals open before you edited ~/.bashrc
> won't see this change. Open a new terminal and test it.

> You can test it by running "echo $VARIABLENAME"; if you get a blank
> line, it didn't work. If you see VARIABLENAME's value, it worked. 

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