Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:54:31 +0200 (EET) From: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> To: rjiang@akbs.com (Ruiyuan Jiang) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting our own News server under CNews Message-ID: <199511290754.JAA14332@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <199511281946.LAA23359@netcom11.netcom.com> from "Ruiyuan Jiang" at Nov 28, 95 11:46:49 am
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Hello,
# 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.
Works Ok for us since old 1.1 days.
# 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?
There is a script 'mergeactive' in ${NEWSBIN}/maint subdir.
Look at it and use it. Was Ok last time I need it.
# 2. mailname, currently this file contains: no.such.domain. should I put
# in our own domain name: akbs.com and remark that line?
Yes, you should put a "Usenet reincarnation" of your machine
name there. This means _not_ a canonical hostname of your
box but a name which is known for Usenet community as a name
of your news system. I'm not sure that remarking will work in this file.
# 3. mailpaths, should I remark the two lines and two lines:
# backbone %s
# internet %s
? For example, for our internal news hierarchies here,
they are elvisti.*, we have the following in the mailpath file:
elvisti %s@elvisti.kiev.ua
I.e. when someone posts to a moderated group elvisti.info.biz.ukr,
a mail alias <elvisti-info-biz-ukr@elvisti.kiev.ua> gets this
posting for approval.
What dows "backbone" and "internet" mean -- I'm confused here.
# Also in the organization file, should I put in my company name in it?
Why not? It might be appropriate. We did so, nothing bad
happened. :-)
# Thanks in advance.
#
Good luck!
# Ruiyuan Jiang
# System Administrator
# Advantage kbs, Inc.
# rjiang@akbs.com
# (908) 287-2236
#
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With best regards -- Andrew Stesin.
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An undocumented feature is a coding error.
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