On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: > I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running > to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem > and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night > and constant connection during the day.
This is similar to my home network. Difference is I have a smaller lan and I call the ISP once an hour to get mail, and news and post mail and news. I use inn and suck. > Here's what I'm trying to do: > > I want to use suck and a news server (which one?) to run a server that will > update itself at night, when the bandwidth demand on the system is lowest. > > Here's the questions I've yet to answer: > > 1. Which news server should I use? This is a small network of about 10 > machines, most of them Winbloze95 but a few Linux. The only problem with inn might be memory. It tends to take all it can find. > 2. Since I have 'normal' access to the NNTP server, suck is the program > I'll need to collect news, right? Yes. > 3. How would I get the new posts onto the ISP's "real" news server for > distribution? Debian installs a script called get-news to automate the suck/post cycle. I believe with inn it uses rpost to send the news to the isp's server. > 4. Is there any documentation anywhere that explains explicitly how to do > this? I've tried my books (running Linux and Linux Secrets), but they (and > the howto) focus on a Slackware installation. How do I do it with Debian? I know of no book that covers news well. Seems like the install under Debian took care of most of the setup. Other than that I printed some of the man pages and some information from /usr/doc/inn and possibly other /usr/doc directories. Seems like once I did this, everything just fell in place. Don't recall any major problems anyway. If it had been hard I would remember more about what I had to do. > If you've made it this far, thanks for reading my long-winded post. Any and > all help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Tim O'Brien > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Linux 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades! > -------> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <------ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > ---------------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----------------- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow? : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer : -------------- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ ------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
