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I'm not great at this, and I think I probably missed writing down some steps but this should be the rough path to glory. I'd appreciate some fixes for this.
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# Usenet in 60 Seconds
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## Installation
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Create Linux machine
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$ sudo -i
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root # yum update
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root # yum install gcc
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root # yum install cpan
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root # yum install python-devel
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root # Get the Mime parser (for controlchan [idk wtf that is])
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root # cpan -f install Mime::Parser
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root # wget ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/inn-2.5.4.tar.gz
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root # tar xvf inn-2.5.4.tar.gz
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root # cd inn-2.5.4
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root # groupadd news
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root # useradd -g news -d /usr/local/news news
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root # ./configure \
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--with-python \
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--enable-libtool \
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--with-gnu-ld \
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--with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail \
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--enable-tagged-hash \
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--enable-shared \
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LIBS="-lpthread"
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root # vim /etc/hostname # set your hostname to something like `news`
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root # vim /etc/hosts # change local.localdomain to the new hostname
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# should probably restart the machine to get the new hostname
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root # su - news
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news $ vim etc/inn.conf
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The top of my `inn.conf` looks like:
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mta: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem %s"
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organization: "tilde.club"
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ovmethod: tradindexed
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hismethod: hisv6
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pathhost: news
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pathnews: /usr/local/news
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#runasuser: # default: news
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#runasgroup: # default: news
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# General Settings
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domain: news.tilde.club
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#innflags:
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mailcmd: /usr/local/news/bin/innmail
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#server:
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Then you need to configure `readers.conf` to say who can connect, how, and what
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kind of things they get when they log in.
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news $ mv etc/readers.conf etc/readers.conf.old
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news $ vim etc/readers.conf
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A rudimentary `readers.conf` looks like:
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# as this machine will only listen to connections from the tilde.club server, I don't mind having
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# such a wild rule.
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auth tilde.club {
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hosts: *
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default: <PUBLIC>
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}
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access default {
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users: <PUBLIC>
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newsgroups: "*,!admin.*,!control,!control.*,!mode,!junk"
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}
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access admin {
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users: "artem,ftrain@tilde.club"
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newsgroups: *
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access: "RPA"
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perlfilter: false
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}
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Ensure that all the history files have the right permissions:
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news $ chmod 644 ~/db/*
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And finally set up the cron job to expire messages. Make sure you run this as
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the `news` user:
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0 3 * * * ~/bin/news.daily expireover lowmark
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## Running the server
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There are some scripts in the `contrib` which will help you get started, namely
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`sample.init.script`. I think it goes into `/etc/init.d`, though I might be
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mistaken. Another option is a long-running tmux session. Either way, the
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following runs the server:
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news $ bin/rc.news start
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And the following stops it:
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news $ bin/rc.news stop
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All errors are logged to `~/log/`. `~/log/errlog` is a good resource for finding
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out why your news server isn't running.
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