Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 14:39:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: system PRIVILEGED account <root@net.bluemoon.net> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN package *non*Install! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951209143723.1013B-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <9512091832.AA05937@net.bluemoon.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, system PRIVILEGED account wrote: > 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. > Go to 'ftp.math.psu.edu:/pub/INN' and get the unoff3 copy of INN that Dave Barr has put together. It includes all the patches ever put out for INN 1.4, and has a config file for FreeBSD that works "out of the box"... Except for modifying where it put things, I just had to type 'make' to get it to compile, and have been running ever since... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.951209143723.1013B-100000>