Date: Sat, 09 Dec 95 13:32:15 -0500 From: system PRIVILEGED account <root@net.bluemoon.net> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: INN package *non*Install! Message-ID: <9512091832.AA05937@net.bluemoon.net>
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I have repeatedly attempted to FTP Install INN1.4 through 10 or 15 sites and although there are files on the sites for INN the install will NOT get the package! I can get CNews and NNTP, but our network provider only supports setup info for INN. Go figure. I have CNews installed, but there are no setup info files either on the system or on the web that I can find! Maddening! I have heard that only masochists run CNews and now I know why! I have browsed the package that have been installed files, but have picked up very little on how to actually configure CNews. I'm really under the gun to get news going and I'm at about the same place I was at 3 days ago when I first booted FBSD. I have attempted to build INN by hand several times and it just bombs horribly. I have no idea how to get a bin of INN for FreeBSD and I desperately need it. I'm still running a genkernal which works great at the moment for me as I have no special needs and all the devices not used on my system are disabled. All I am trying to do with the FreeBSD Machine is run internet news for our network. It's very frustrating. Almost all of the other packages installed flawlessly, but after repeatedly reinstalling the entire OS 7 or 8 times I still have no INN. I also can't seem to find out how to create a configuration floppy to use with a post install configuration and I'm getting weary of renterring all the network and filesystem info every time I boot from the boot floppy. I would really appreciate any help anyone can offer to me, I'm no stranger to Unix, I built a Digital Unix (osf1) system from scratch that runs internet for us. -- J. Henry Priebe Jr. President & Network Adminstrator root@net.bluemoon.net Blue Moon Internet Services sysop@bbs.bluemoon.net Blue Moon Online System http://www.bluemoon.net "The Moon is in the Sky and Everyone is there!"
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