Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 15:59:14 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: ANNOUNCE: mynews, inn+suck primer and set-up utilities Message-ID: <XFMail.970823160258.dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>
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Announcing mynews
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mynews is a set of scripts and instructions for setting up a small
news-server using inn-1.5.1 and suck-2.6.2 on FreeBSD-2.2.2
mynews is intended for people with a small number of machines and
users (e.g. at home) who do not have a "real" NNTP feed.
Author
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mynews was written by Duncan Barclay, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk
Versioning and Availability
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mynews has not yet got an official home, the incoming directory
at ftp.freebsd.org contains the most recent copy:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/mynews-0.1.tar.gz
The current version is 0.1 and I haven't decided where to store the
tag in the distribution.
History
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mynews grew from my notes as I was struggling to set up inn-1.5.1 and
suck-2.6.2 when I got a dial-up Internet account.
As I found that the majority of the documentation was just too
confusing for someone with no experience of running a news server
(although I have been looking after various *nix boxes for a few
years) I have put together mynews for other people to use.
Future Work
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mynews will track changes in the inn and suck as and when they get
reflected into the stable (not -current) releases of FreeBSD.
I will also take on board comments from any one who uses mynews, and
would welcome suggestions/comments from experienced news
administrators on ways of making this set-up work more smoothly etc.
The current version number of 0.1 reflects the fact that this is the
first release of mynews. I have been using mynews for about three
months now and it seems to be stable. Version 1.0 will be released
when (and if) mynews becomes more integrated with the FreeBSD
ports/packages collection.
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