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From: rjiang@akbs.com (Ruiyuan Jiang)
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Subject: Setting our own News server under CNews 
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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