Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Okay, what CNews info do I need BEFORE I read the manuals
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.225630.6645@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9008251535.AA15538@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 90 22:56:30 GMT

In article <9008251535.AA15538@jade.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:
>From browsing the news.software.b and other related groups, I see references
>to either needing to do things (like build the software as user of news, etc.)
>or configure things which are perhaps not exactly obvious.

Many sysadmins' experience is that if you follow the directions, it works.
(For example, the current version is fairly explicit about the matter
of what uid to do things as.)

However, it is true that our documentation is not really very good for
someone who's never dealt with news administration before.  Our usual
suggestion is that you first get and read the Nutshell Handbook on
the subject:

	"Managing UUCP and Usenet", by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino,
	O'Reilly & Associates, 1989, ISBN 0-937175-48-X.  This latest
	edition covers C News as well as B News.  It's not perfect but
	it's lots better than nothing.  Inquiries to nuts@ora.com or
	uunet!ora!nuts.
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