Ghins Mathai forced the electrons to say:
> I am a newbie as far as newsgroups and accessing them is concerned. Can I
> get the
> information on how to access them from somewhere? I am not able to access
> any link
> of the form news:*****
You need to have a news server. VSNL provides news.vsnl.net.in, ERNET's
is sangam.ncst.ernet.in. I don't know about other ISPs. You just tell
your news client which server to connect to, and you are through. Most
unix clients respect the environment variable NNTPSERVER.
> Also tell me the following:
> 1> We use Linux (Redhat 5.2) as Internet gateway with squid as proxy server. How
> do I let users on my LAN access newsgroups?
Let them configure their news clients and access the outside world. Or you
can run an NNTP server, which gets news feed from the ISP server - this
requires quite a lot of disk space, but with an appropriate firewalling
rule, you can restrict the newsgroups your users can access.
> 2> How do I set up a local newsgroup on the Linux server ??
Configure and run innd which comes with RHL, or you can download the
sources and compile it. The documentation of the package is excellent,
you should be able to set it up without trouble. In case of problems,
post them here, I will be glad to help you.
Binand
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