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Subject: Re: INN configuration
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Tim Kellers said the following on 2009-07-25 15:53:
> Michel Talon wrote:
>> Tim Kellers said:
>>  
>>> -Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, no problem. Have you read the Inn install doc in 
>> /usr/local/share/doc/inn/INSTALL
>> This is a step by step guide to the *long* configuration.
>>
>> Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also
>> need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports).
>>
>> You also need to edit the "active" file to add newsgroups.
>>
>>
>>   
> Thanks,
> 
> I think my problem may be my not having other software to grab the news 
> from an upstream news server.  I'll take a look at newsx.  The 
> configuration is long for sure, but I've been through it so many times 
> in the past few days that I think I'm getting better at it. :-)
> 
> I'll report my success/failures as soon as I can get back on it.
> 
> Tim

Some information
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html