Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 20:00:25 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: simple news setup Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961225194500.600A-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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I run another system (a BBS) that processes NNTP. Unfortunately, my provider has a fairly limited number of definitions I can give him on what to feed (and they only feed during half the day), and consequently with a 56k feed, we often end up with expired messages in the queue and have to receive far more articles than we actually carry. What I'd like to do is use FBSD to streamline the process and unload the poor BBS machine. What I'm trying to do is to use suck to pull the specific newsgroups we carry and then use innxmit to send them to the BBS. I've done this manually, and it seems to work, without requiring innd to be installed. This gives me a simple installation, but I worry that it doesn't maintain any sort of history. I've just been copying suck.newrc over sucknewsrc after a run to keep the counters correct. Is there something wrong in this approach, or is there a better way to do this? The man page for innxmit seems to imply I have to run sendnntp (and hence innd)... but if I'm not running news on BSD, do I really have to worry about locking and so on? Without innd I take it I can't throttle the transfer process? (do I need to?) All input is appreciated... -Dave
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