slrnpull running amok

[Kipling C. <kc...@wo...>]

have done something, I know not what, and am having manifold problem
with slrnpull.  slrn works wonderfully, by itself.

1. after calling slrnpull as described in the QUICK-INSTALL;
	(start network connection)
	slrnpull -d /var/spool/slrnpull -h news.ftn.net

then the wheels fall off.  first, slrnpull generated 1 line per
second saying that /usr/sbin/ppp-up was not a valid file or
directory.  WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?  I checked the slrnpull.conf and
also the .slrnrc, and find no reference to this path.  I then had to
cancel the rxvt window (when I could get the pointer up there)
because all the error messages slrnpull was generating were slowing
my machine down to a crawl.

Fine! I (mistakenly) thought, slrnpull wants ppp-on in /usr/sbin?
I'll copy it there. Now it says:

/usr/bin/slrnpull: fork: Cannot allocate memory

and the only thing in the /var/spool/slrnpull dir is the
slrnpull.conf file.

What am I doing wrong with slrnpull, please?
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Kipling+