Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 11:46:49 -0800 From: rjiang@akbs.com (Ruiyuan Jiang) To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Setting our own News server under CNews Message-ID: <199511281946.LAA23359@netcom11.netcom.com>
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Hi,
I am trying to setup our own Usenet News server with CNews (maybe I need
nntp transport, nntp-1.5.11.5.tgz, I am not sure)under FreeBSD v2.1, 486
DX-20, 20 MB RAM. The reference book that I have is "Managing uucp and
Usenet" from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. After I downloaded the
software, cnews-cr.g.tgz (under packages-2.1 directory),from
ftp.freebsd.org. I used "pkg_add cnews-cr.g.tgz" to install it. The
current problem that I face is how to set it up so we can downloaded the
internet news from our internet service provider NetCom through 56 kbps
Frame Realy line (not uucp link). According to the book that I mentioned
above, I need to modify several files under /usr/local/lib/news
directory.
1. active, this file I can get from NetCom for first time setup. Can I
use: cat active.netcom | awk '{printf("%s 000000000 000000000 %s\n", $1,
$4) }' > active
to become my own actual "active" file?
2. mailname, currently this file contains: no.such.domain. should I put
in our own domain name: akbs.com and remark that line?
3. mailpaths, should I remark the two lines and two lines:
backbone %s
internet %s
Also in the organization file, should I put in my company name in it?
Thanks in advance.
Ruiyuan Jiang
System Administrator
Advantage kbs, Inc.
rjiang@akbs.com
(908) 287-2236
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