From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 25 13:53:42 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 AEEFC106566C for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 813DD8FC16 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from tim-kellerss-macbook-pro.local (www.smsd.tv [96.57.143.18]) by mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KNC005KVBXGYTU0@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:53:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:53:40 -0400 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <20090725070336.GA12539@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: Michel Talon Message-id: <4A6B0E64.2000607@wallnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <20090725070336.GA12539@lpthe.jussieu.fr> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:53:42 -0000 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