INN configuration

[Tim Kellers]

Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Tim Kellers said the following on 2009-07-25 15:53:
>> Michel Talon wrote:
>>> Tim Kellers said:
>>>  
>>>> -Has anyone set up a n INN server on freebsd, successfuly?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Yes, no problem. Have you read the Inn install doc in 
>>> /usr/local/share/doc/inn/INSTALL
>>> This is a step by step guide to the *long* configuration.
>>>
>>> Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also
>>> need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports).
>>>
>>> You also need to edit the "active" file to add newsgroups.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> Thanks,
>>
>> I think my problem may be my not having other software to grab the 
>> news from an upstream news server.  I'll take a look at newsx.  The 
>> configuration is long for sure, but I've been through it so many 
>> times in the past few days that I think I'm getting better at it. :-)
>>
>> I'll report my success/failures as soon as I can get back on it.
>>
>> Tim
>
> Some information
> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html
>
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Thanks for that information.  I've added news.software.nntp to my 
newsgroup and active files. 

I don't know if I spent so much time reading the doc's that I couldn't 
see the forest for the newsfeeds, but until  Michel Talon wrote:

>
> Note that if you want to suck in news from another news server you also
> need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). 
I was chasing my tail trying to get the server to pul in articles.  I 
think that should stand out in the docs, somewhere, but I never did see 
it, or if I did see it, I didn't understand what it was saying.


Tim