From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Problem with Groups of the same name under different backends
Date: 23 Aug 1998 12:54:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigvhnknf2l.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "23 Aug 1998 02:59:02 +0200"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> > [1] If `gnus-nntp-server' hasn't been customized and it fails, why
> > is the variable containing "/etc/nntpserver" not tried as a
> > fallback?
>
> That value is only mentioned in the obsolete `gnus-nntpserver-file'
> variable. I've now marked it as such.
>
> As for why nntp doesn't look in that file... Uhm... Is it used
> much?
What `/etc/nntpserver'? It's used quite a lot, because it's a
convenient way to set up the system-wide NNTP server default,
especially on multi-user machines. (I have it on machine where I
work.)
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-23 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-22 22:03 SL Baur
1998-08-23 0:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-23 1:38 ` SL Baur
1998-08-23 2:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-23 3:38 ` SL Baur
1998-08-23 3:49 ` SL Baur
1998-08-23 12:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-24 23:57 ` SL Baur
1998-08-23 3:35 ` SL Baur
1998-08-23 10:54 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-08-23 12:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-24 9:21 ` Kai Grossjohann
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