Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!uci-ics!erickson From: erickson@ics.uci.edu (Gary Erickson) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: .newsrc file fixer Message-ID: <1989Oct3.170740.9636@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 17:07:40 GMT References: <4784@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <8437@boring.cwi.nl> <2672@taux01.UUCP> <8439@boring.cwi.nl> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu (Network News) Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 24 dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >In article <2672@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes: > > In article <8437@boring.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: > > > cp .newsrc .newsrc.old > > > sed -e '/!/d' .newsrc.old >.newsrc > > > > The point of keeping unsubscribed groups in .newsrc is that whenever a > > new group is created, rn will ask you if you want to add it. It >But I checked. Rn will only check for new groups if the active file is changed. I understand that rrn has no way to know whether or not you've already been asked about a newsgroup. We've got one news server, and all of our Sun clients use rrn to get stuff from the server. I've run into the same problem. So, I just add everything and unsubscribe. Gary University of California Irvine | (714) 856-4222 Information & Computer Science Dept. | erickson@ics.uci.edu (Internet) Support Group | ucbvax!ucivax!erickson (UUCP) | saericks@uci (Bitnet) -- Gary Scott Erickson