From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 26 15:13:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271F0106566B for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF73A8FC24 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from tim-kellerss-macbook-pro.local (www.smsd.tv [96.57.143.18]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KNE00841AAU1M00@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:13:42 -0400 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <4A6C6C14.7040201@bah.homeip.net> To: Bernt Hansson Message-id: <4A6C72A6.7080908@wallnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20090725070336.GA12539@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <4A6B0E64.2000607@wallnet.com> <4A6C6C14.7040201@bah.homeip.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:13:44 -0000 Bernt Hansson wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Thanks for that information. I've added news.software.nntp to my newsgroup and active files. I don't know if I spent so much time reading the doc's that I couldn't see the forest for the newsfeeds, but until Michel Talon wrote: > > 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). I was chasing my tail trying to get the server to pul in articles. I think that should stand out in the docs, somewhere, but I never did see it, or if I did see it, I didn't understand what it was saying. Tim