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- ``yer about to be boarded, ye scurvy network news dogs! har har ...''
- -- Oliver Wendell Jones, Bloom County Hacker & Cracker
-
- ``No news is good news.''
- ``When bigger machines are built, netnews will saturate them.''
- ``USENET -- All the news that's fit to `N'.''
- -- /usr/games/fortune
-
- ``Net news is the television of computing.''
- -- Geoff Collyer
-
- On older systems, you will to also install a small program, setnewids,
- setuid-root. If this worries you, read setnewsids.c; all it does is
- execute setgid(), setuid() to the "news" group and user if they exist,
- otherwise relaynews's real ids. Setnewsids can be found in ../conf.
-
- You can test relaynews by giving NEWSCTL, NEWSBIN or NEWSARTS
- environment variables to change the library, binary or spool
- directories and I encourage this.
-
- If you plan to run rn, you'll need a recent rn which honours Xref: in
- the absence of Relay-Version:, which has been banished. patchlevel 40
- or greater should be fine; patchlevel 40 works fine.
-
- You will need to put your site name in /usr/lib/news/mailname
- (../conf/build looks after all this). No upper case letters in your
- name please, there is no call for it and it just looks uGLy.
-
- You must only permit relaynews to run on file servers since newsboot
- clears all locks in /usr/lib/news.
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- You'll need compress for compressing or uncompressing batches of news.
- See the contact person of your news feed or the moderator of the
- newsgroup comp.sources.unix (try uunet!sources).
-
- See the anews directory for conversion filters from A to B and back.
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- You'll need to install /usr/lib/newsbin/gngp (see ../misc) before inews
- will work.
-
- B-2.11-isms. Your /usr/lib/news/mailpaths file must be updated to
- point at your nearest backbone site. A 5th sys file field for
- Distribution: patterns is available (add them in sys after the
- subscription list, separated by "/"), and a 6th field for excluded
- hosts is also, separated by "/" from the system name.
-
- Good Luck.
-
- Geoff Collyer
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