Variable: news-directory

news-directory is a variable defined in nnspool.el.gz.

Value

"/var/spool/news/"

Documentation

The root directory below which all news files are stored.

Aliases

news-path

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el.gz
;; Probably this entire thing should be obsolete.
;; It's only used to init nnspool-spool-directory, so why not just
;; set that variable's default directly?
(eval-and-compile
  (defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory)
  (defvar news-directory (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
			     "/usr/spool/news/"
			   "/var/spool/news/")
    "The root directory below which all news files are stored."))