expire problems

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Apr 25 22:04:08 UTC 2000


Kevin McKinnon <kevin at sunshinecable.com> writes:

> What address do you want your reports sent to?  This is specified in 
> ~news/lib/innshellvars.

> Edit the line in ~news/lib/innshellvars that starts with
> NEWSMASTER=
> to specify the address you want stuff sent to.  For your own address, 
> change the line to read:
> NEWSMASTER=msteixeira at fazenda.sp.gov.br

That's not the only place that NEWSMASTER is used, and some of them are
set when INN is compiled.  If you want a different account than the
default, it may be worth recompiling INN (this time with the configure
flag to specify a different newsmaster).

> Or, you can edit the /etc/aliases file on the news server to include
> usenet: msteixeira at fazenda.sp.gov.br
> then run 'newaliases'.

This is probably the best approach to take.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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