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- The newsxd program is a configurable daemon for controlling the
- transmission of netnews. It allows the definition of multiple
- categories of service, by setting a number of parameters defining
- things such as how often news is to be transmitted, the number of news
- transmitters that can be active at one time, the maximum time a
- transmitter may spend sending netnews to a single host, and the maximum
- system load at which netnews transmitters may be started. newsxd can
- also be used to start up other programs which must be restarted upon
- exit, or which must be run at regular intervals with greater
- granularity than cron(8) allows.
-
- newsxd Installation
-
- To compile newsxd, you need to do the following things:
-
- 1) Edit newsxd.h, and make any changes necessary to the default
- locations for the newsxd data files. Also select whether you want to
- have newsxd log to syslog or to it's own log file.
-
- 2) Edit the Makefile and define the correct locations to store newsxd
- and it's manpage on your system.
-
- 3) make depend
-
- 4) make install
-
- 5) Create a newsxd.conf file and install it in the appropriate location
- (the default is /usr/local/etc/newsxd.conf). Sample configuration files
- are included as complex.conf and simple.conf.
-
- 6) Turn off any nntpxmit's, sendbatch's, etc. so they don't conflict with
- the ones started by newsxd.
-
- 7) Run newsxd
-