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Re: News-Server on Mac OS X?

At 12:09 PM +0200 6/26/02, Stephan Lichtenauer wrote:
Hello Hans,

I propose you look into INN, that is the most common Usenet-server, and it is open source. You can obtain it and configuration information from http://www.isc.org/products/INN/. I have already compiled it for MacOS X 10.0.4 one time without problems, I suggest you create a new user "News" and place everything (binaries etc) in his home directory (since it needs a "news"-user). Elena Samsonova's documentation (you also find a link on the above page, it is here: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Elena.Samsonova/unix/inn.shtml) is the best I have found.

Pass the appropriate configuration parameters to the config-script, look into the INSTALL (or so....) document to see what is possible and makes sense. You of course need the developer tools installed.

It is quite powerful in respect of access restrictions, throughput etc, nevertheless you will need quite some time to configure it.

I think there are (commercial) alternatives like DNews available that might be easier to configure, although I don't have no experience with them.

If you can wait, I would recommend Rumormill (www.swaystairs.com). It was a great MacOS news server for years, and the author (now separated from Stairways) is working at carbonization. He posted an update this month, and has limited functionality under OSX currently.

If you do not need to seed your own newsgroups, but rather just want to cache the groups, I like nntpcache (http://www.nntpcache.org/).

Mike
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