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You will need to customize common/conf.h to get the server, support, and client programs running on your system. Unfortunately, "rrn" has its own ideas of where to look for configuration information, so there is some duplication here. >>> Also, you should see README.SYSV if you are compiling this on >>> a System V machine, as there is some extra stuff you need to do. >>> Also, you should see README.MTXNIU if you are compiling this >>> on a system running MTXNIU BSD + NFS. >>> Also, you should see README.IRIX, if you are compiling this on the >>> SGI IRIS. >>> Also, you should see README.XENIX, if you are compiling this on >>> a machine running SCO XENIX with TCP. >>> Also, you should see README.HPUX, if you are compiling this under >>> HP-UX. FIRST, copy conf.h.dist to conf.h and alter ONLY conf.h. This is sort of a walk through conf.h so you can get some idea of what parameters need to be changed. You should probably print this file out (or keep it in a separate window if you're on a workstation) and edit conf.h as you read through it. For each #define in conf.h, the default value is listed in parenthesis after its name in this document. Manual entries mentioned here are in the "doc" directory of the NNTP distribution. First are some compile-time type options, for compiling in certain code. The options should be "#undef"ed if you don't want them, and "#defined" if you do. ALONE (undefined) Defines whether we're a stand alone version of the server, or whether we're running under inetd. Define this if you do NOT have inetd. If you do have inetd, keep it undef'ed. FASTFORK (undefined) If ALONE is defined, then this option tells us not to read the active file when we fork, but rather for the parent daemon to re-read it every READINTVL (below) seconds. This should make forking off children a little bit faster. LOAD (defined as 5) You can have nntp findout the load average on a BSD-type machine (sun or ultrix) and if the load average is higher than LOAD, the connection will be rejected. DYNAMIC_ART_ARRAY (undefined) Originally, nntpd assumes a specific maximum number of articles on line per group. (See MAX_ARTICLES definition below.) This has proven to be a problem at some sites. Define this to dynamically allocate a larger article array as needed. WARNING: This code did not go through beta. Use at your own risk. BSD_42 (undefined) If you have a 4.2 BSD system (as opposed to a 4.3 BSD system), this needs to be defined. Really it does only two things: changes the log level to be compatible with 4.2, and automatically defines DBM (below). If, somehow, you already have ndbm, then you should kill the lines which auto-define it. CMU_MACH (undefined) Define if you are running CMU's MACH. NeXT is handled as a BSD_43 machine. USG (undefined) Compiles in code to support System V; some of these appear down below. TLI (undefined) Compiles in code to support the Transport Layer Interface of System V Release 3 and later. [This code does not work yet, but will work in NNTP 1.6.] **** The following four definitions have to do with the format of the **** **** news history file. You must select the same format for NNTP that **** **** you chose when you built your news software. If you don't, NNTP **** **** will NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **** DBM (undefined) If you don't have the ndbm routines in your standard library (i.e., if you're not running 4.3 BSD), you'll have to define this; all it does is replace the ndbm calls with the earlier, unwieldy dbm calls. >>> If you define DBM, be sure to edit server/Makefile to have "-ldbm" >>> on the LIBS line, i.e. LIBS = -ldbm [This does not apply if you are compiling on the SGI IRIX platform.] NDBM (defined) Define if you have the 4.3BSD ndbm routines and used them to build your news software. DBZ (undefined) Define this is you are using the DBZ libraries. If you DO define this, you will need to make alterations to makefile to insure that things will work. If you built your news software using DBZ, you MUST build NNTP with DBZ. Many people have success by use the cnews library as a link library. USGHIST (undefined) Define if you don't use dbm/ndbm for the history file, but instead you use the USG-style history file format. IF YOU DO NOT DEFINE ANY OF DBZ, DBM OR NDBM ABOVE, THIS IS THE DEFAULT. CNEWS (undefined) If you're running CNEWS instead of BNEWS define this. NNTP will not work with CNEWS if you don't define this. BATCHED_INPUT (undefined) If this is defined, then the CNews-style batched input is used to collect incoming articled into a file which periodically is sent to the incoming news processor. LAI_TCP (undefined) This should be defined if you are compiling on SCO Xenix with TCP/IP. It make work on other systems as well. EXCELAN (undefined) This will compile in support for the EXCELAN EXOS TCP/IP routines. It is known to work with Unisys 5000-series computer. WIN_TCP (undefined) Support for Wollongong TCP/IP for System V/386. [This code does not yet work. It will work in NNTP 1.6.] U_LONG (undefined) Define this if your system does not know what a u_long is. SIGRET (defined) This should be defined to be int or void depending on what signals return on your system. SunOS 4.X, Ultrix 3.X, and IRIX return void. Most others return int. GHNAME (defined) Defined if you want to use the 4BSD gethostname() call to determine the name of your system. This #define is only used by the mini-inews when posting news. Some reasons you might not want to use this are: if your UUCP/news name is different than your internet name; if your gethostname() currently doesn't return fully-qualified names (e.g., 4.2) but you may "upgrade" to 4.3 (and return fq'd names) shortly, and you'd rather not have to recompile news... See UUNAME below. UUNAME (undefined) If this is defined, mini-inews will get the hostname out of /etc/uucpname or /local/uucpname. >>> If GHNAME and UUNAME are undefined, mini-inews will <<< >>> get the host name from /usr/include/whoami.h <<< MMAP (undefined) Define this if you run on a version of Unix that has the mmap() system call. SunOS and Solbourne's OS/MP are two versions of Unix that do. vfork (undefined) If you DON'T have vfork, replace this line with: #define vfork fork If you DO have vfork, be sure that this remains undefined. MINFREE (4000) This is the minimum number of kbytes or blocks (depending on what the system) that must be free on the news spool partition before nntp will allow an XFER command to function. POSTBUFFER (1000) NNTP will allow posting until there is less than MINFREE-POSTBUFFER blocks or kbytes available. This allows posting to continue while XFERs are stopped. MINFILES (MINFREE/4) This is the minimum number of inodes that must be available on the news spool partition before nntp will allow any function that will create more files. If you define this, please be careful not to make it a large number. I recommend something around MINFREE/4. SETPROCTITLE (undefined) This will replace the process name with information about what nntp is doing. This is known to work on BSD-flavored Unix, but may not work on USG Unix. IHAVE_DEBUG (undefined) Enables logging of each message-id as it is offered via the IHAVE command. This produces huge log files, but is useful if you suspect a site is repeatedly offering the same article to your site after you have rejected it. XHDR (defined) Enables the XHDR command, which is an extention of the NNTP spec. XHDR allows client programs to see header lines (e.g., subject) from an article or range of articles. This allows the '=' command in rn to be much faster, IF AND ONLY IF your server machine is fast. Since this command foists off work on the server, it may be better to leave this undefined if your server machine is heavily loaded. SUBNET (defined) If you are running 4.3 BSD or have support for subnets on your local net, this will include subnet support for the access file. Basically, a routine goes out and looks at all your ethernet interfaces, and figures out subnet masks from them. It then uses these to resolve subnets from IP addresses. DAMAGED_NETMASK (undefined) 4.3 supports subnet masks of any bit-width, but user programs are *very* hard pressed to deal with masks which are not a multiple of 8 bits wide. If you have a weird netmask, define DAMAGED_NETMASK. The code which uses it is in server/subnet.c. NETMASK (undefined) The code in server/subnet.c wants to use 4BSD ioctls to determine the subnet masks for each network interface. However, you may be able to support subnets without having such ioctls (HPUX is an example of such a system; SunOS 3.3 is another). If you will be satisfied by having a compiled-in netmask, define NETMASK to be a hex constant describing your netmask (e.g., 0xffffff00). You must also define SUBNET as well. DECNET (undefined) Compile in DECNET support into the server and clientlib. This works under Ultrix (and not VMS!). UMASK (undefined) This should be defined if you are running CNEWS and are concerned that batch files may be created that can be altered by anyone. Defining this as 022 should work safely for most systems, but experiment to be sure. DOMAINMATCH (defined) Defined to allow the use of domain specifications in the nntp access file. Specifications for domains are of the form *.domain.name and can be used instead of individually naming hosts or networks. FAKESYSLOG (undefined) This is useful if your system doesn't support syslog, but you'd like logging none the less. By defining FAKESYSLOG to be the name of a file, e.g., "/usr/lib/news/nntplog", you can have all nntp messages logged to that file, ala syslog. If you define FAKESYSLOG, you must define LOG and SYSLOG, below. The code for the fake syslog routines are in ../server/fakesyslog.c, and are largely joe-code. FAKEAPPEND (undefined) If your host supports the BSD fdopen() function and the O_APPEND flag to open(), you should define FAKEAPPEND with FAKESYSLOG so that multiple copies of nntpd don't trash the log with buffered fprintf's. NOTE: FAKEAPPEND does nothing if FAKESYSLOG is not defined. SYSLOG (LOG_NEWS) nntpd uses the syslog system to report errors, and optionally, to log usage statistics. If SYSLOG is defined, errors will be reported via the syslog() library routine; if it is not defined, no errors will be reported. If you just define SYSLOG, only errors will be reported. If you want more information, such as statistics, you should define LOG, below. Defining LOG will cause additional information besides errors to be logged via SYSLOG. If you have syslog(), define SYSLOG to be the name of the facility under which nntpd should log things. If you are using FAKESYSLOG above, it really doesn't matter what facility name you choose; LOG_NEWS is fine. LOG (undefined) When LOG is defined, we log copious amounts of information via syslog to a special file. One a busy system like ucbvax, this produces about 100K of log information per day. Look in ../server/SYSLOG to get an idea of what will be logged. You can use the scripts provided in ../support to produce statistics on your NNTP server if you run with LOG. TIMEOUT (2 hours) If a server is idle in command mode for TIMEOUT amount of time, it will close the connection with an error message. This prevents old servers from clogging the system. Timeout should be at least two hours so people can go eat lunch and leave an rn on their terminal. XFER_TIMEOUT (30 minutes) This is like TIMEOUT, above, but takes effect when the server is receiving news via IHAVE or POST. If at least one line is not received in XFER_TIMEOUT amount of time, the server aborts with an error. DOMAIN ("uucp") If domain is defined, it specifies that whatever it is defined as will be appended to host names; this is for posting news when your hostname() doesn't return your fully-qualified domain name. If your hostname system call does return a fully-qualified name, simply undef DOMAIN. HIDDENNET (undefined) If HIDDENNET is defined, it forces inews to interpret DOMAIN as a complete host name, i.e. the local host is not prepended in the From: header. The Path: header is generated with only the login name, allowing inews on the nntp server to fill in the UUCP path. This has the effect of making all machines on a local network look, to the outside world, as a single host. REALDOMAIN (undefined) Define this if you want to use gethostbyname() to get your host's fully qualified domain name. Useful if hostname() does not return the fully qualified domain name. If you define this, it will override the use of HIDDENNET. DO_DOTDIR (defined) If defined, mini-inews will look in the environment of the user for DOTDIR and use $DOTDIR/.signature as the signature if it exists. If undefined or $DOTDIR/.signature does not exist, $HOME/.signature will be used instead. This is similiar to the behavior of rn. AUTH (defined) Defines whether we want to use the experimental NNTP Version 2 Authorization process. Read the file AUTHORIZATION in the root directory of the NNTP distribution for more information. SERVER_FILE ("/usr/local/lib/rn/server") This file contains the name of the machine which runs the news server. Mini-inews, rrn, and getactive all use the contents of this file. The idea behind this is that you don't have to have the server compiled into anything, and can have the same binaries across machines which have different news servers. You must edit this file, and add a single line which contains the name of the news server for each machine which runs rrn. If you have multiple news servers on your network, users can select which one they want to use via the NNTPSERVER environment variable, which will override the contents of SERVER_FILE. Simply set NNTPSERVER to be the name of the machine whose news server you want to use. If you are afraid of people abusing a particular news server via NNTPSERVER, you should edit the access file for that news server accordingly. Security begins at home. >>> rrn, mini-inews, and getactive NO LONGER have compiled in server names <<< >>> Be sure to create the SERVER_FILE as mentioned above, or you'll lose! <<< POSTER ("usenet") If your nntpd is run as root, nntpd will attempt to setuid() and setgid() to the uid and gid of whoever POSTER is defined as. If your nntpd isn't running as root (i.e., it might run as "usenet"), either undefine this, or define it to be a user which exists but is not used -- the setuid will fail in any event. PASSFILE (/etc/nntp.sys) This file contains the password authentication information that the client uses if AUTH is defined and in use. ACCESS_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/nntp_access") Specifies the location of the remote access file. See the manual entry, nntpd.8c, for a better explanation. A sample access file is in ../support/access_file. STAT_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/mgdstats") NOTE: THIS IS NOT USED, BUT REMAINS FOR COMPATABILITY. When the support program "mkgrdates" is run, it keep stats in a file to tell whether or not to rebuild its database the next time it is run; this is the file the stats are kept in. Needless to say, it must be writable by whatever user-id runs "mkgrdates". See the manual entry "mkgrdates.8c" for more info. NGDATE_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/groupdates") NOTE: THIS IS NOT USED, BUT REMAINS FOR COMPATABILITY. Specifies the location of the newsgroup creation date file. See the manual entry for both nntpd.8c and mkgrdates.8c for more info. ACTIVE_TIMES_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/active.times") This needs to be defined if you defined CNEWS. It is a CNEWS-maintained version of the NGDATE_FILE. Since it is supported by CNEWS itself, it means the NEWGROUPS will actually work. Hurrah! Next, we have some common files: ACTIVE_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/active") Specifies the location of the "active" file. DISTRIBUTIONS_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/distributions") Specifies the location of the file that defines valid distributions for this site. The format of the file is usually the name of the distribution (e.g. "tx" for the state of Texas), some spaces or a tab, and a short descrip- tion of the area that the distribution covers (e.g. "The State of Texas"). This is used by the "LIST DISTRIBUTIONS" command. NEWSGROUPS_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/newsgroups") Specifies the location of the file that contains newsgroup descriptions. The format of the file is usually the name of the newsgroup, a tab, and a short description of the newsgroup (usually from the checkgroups control message). This file is used by the "LIST NEWSGROUPS" command. HISTORY_FILE ("/usr/lib/news/history") Specifies the location of the "history" file. This is used with NEWNEWS and ARTICLE/HEAD/BODY/STAT when given an message-id argument. INEWS ("/usr/lib/news/inews") Specifies the location of inews, for posting. Note that this is NOT the same as the mini-inews in the inews directory supplied with the NNTP distribution, which should only be installed on client machines. INEWS should be the pathname of real, live, honest-to-God inews. Your inews may be in a different place, such as /usr/bin/inews. SPOOLDIR ("/usr/spool/news") This is the directory where news is stored on the server. RNEWS ("/usr/bin/rnews") Specifies the location of the rnews program which is used for dealing with news received from other systems via the IHAVE command; it is often a link to inews. ---- The following variables apply only if you are using C News batching. ---- NONEWSRUN (undefined) Define this only if you plan to use the daemon version of relaynews. TOOBIG (300000, unless NONEWSRUN is defined) Under CNews-style batching, a file that is larger than this gets sent to be unbatched. (Size is in bytes.) TOOMANY (1024, unless NONEWSRUN is defined) Under CNews-style batching, if the number of batched articles is bigger than this, the batch file gets unbatched. TOOOLD (5 minutes) Under CNews-style batching, a file that is older than this gets sent to be unbatched. COPYSIZE (8192) Under CNews-style batching, the number of bytes to copy at one time. MAXDIGITS (25) MAXSTR (1024) INDIR ("/usr/spool/news/in.coming") Under CNews-style batching, the directory in which the batching takes place. BATCH_FILE ("/usr/spool/news/in.coming/nntp.XXXXXX") The filename template for batch files under CNews-style batching. NEWSRUN ("/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun") The name of the program to which batch files are fed once they are created under CNews-style unbatching. _________________________________________________________________________ Look carefully before modifying any of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FCNTL (defined if SYSV is defined) Some systems define things like O_RDONLY, etc. in <fcntl.h>. If FCNTL is defined, <fcntl.h> will be included. FTRUNCATE (defined if dgux) Use ftruncate() even if this is a System V like machine. NDIR (defined if USG is defined) Uses the ndir compatability library, and includes <ndir.h>. READINTVL (600 seconds) If the server is compiled with FASTFORK and ALONE, then this number tells how often to check if the active file has changed (and to read it in if it has changed since the last time). See README in the "server" directory of the NNTP distribution. If you are not compiled with FASTFORK and ALONE (hint: you're not going to), don't worry about this. MAX_ARTICLES (4096) This is the maximum articles per newsgroup that nntp can handle if DYNAMIC_ART_ARRAY is not defined.