On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 06:19:19PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > What are all the components I need in order to setup a news server so that I > can connect from a remote computer. I currently have the nntp and cnews > packages installed, although don't know what else to do to configure them or
This depends on what you want to do. Do you want to provide a news server to a large number of people or are you only interested in reading news? In the former case you want to set up a large news server package, but in the latter case you can get away with a much simpler program like Leafnode. If you're on a dialup connection you're almost certainly in the latter group. The standard full news server these days is INN - cnews/nntp is an older system. I haven't used it in a while, but from what I remember the documentation supplied is pretty complete. It can be a bit tricky to find everything you need, but all the information is in there. When using this sort of system you normally agree with several other systems that you will send each other news, and your servers push the news at each other whenever they get new news. As well as INN and cnews there's also Diablo and some commercial packages, but Diablo isn't packaged for Debian and the commercial packages are commercial and often not for Linux. Diablo does have a nice reputation for configurability, though. > setup newsgroups. Do I also need suck? I can't seem to find any FAQ or HOWTO You need suck if you're not running a full news server but want to use INN or nntp/cnews. It (or an equivalent package such as newsx) talks to another news server like a client, downloads news and then feeds it into your own news server and also does the reverse translation. OTOH, it is very much easier to use Leafnode. This will do all the work of inn and suck that is needed to support a small userbase, but doesn't scale very well to large numbers of users and groups. > on this topic. Also, where would I get my newsfeed from? > Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing > Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX Does your university LAN have a news server on it already? If you're on the LAN and there is one you probably don't want to use a server at all but to simply point your client at it. If there is no server then one or more of your IP providers (redundancy is good) will probably provide a feed. They should be able give you quite a bit of help with setting up. Otherwise, places like news.software.nntp are good places to look. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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