From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 26 01:12:44 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 9DACF106564A for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:12:44 +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 74E568FC13 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:12:44 +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 <0KND00D4O7D7FJB0@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:12:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:12:43 -0400 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <4A6B0E64.2000607@wallnet.com> To: Michel Talon Message-id: <4A6BAD8B.5020007@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> 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 01:12:45 -0000 Tim Kellers wrote: > 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 > > > Looks like newsx was the solution I was looking for. So far, it is pulling the articles from my active groups from my upstream provider. I assume from the docs I have to run rnews -U after this immense pull has completed. Thanks for all the help Tim