Hello, On Mon, 10.07.2006 at 10:50:09 +0200, Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:25:27AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > stupid question (perhaps), but what in the base system uses group > > 'news' in the first place? > Nothing.
well, then it's a legacy group from the days when a CNews or so was part of the base system, right? > There is at least some other ports (news/leafnode) using the group > 'news'. However, it doesn't make much sense to run inn *and* > leafnode on the same machine, so IMHO, 'news' would be fine. Ok. > Well, back in my linux days, I used to run an old inn talking with > it's feed via uucp, but I'm probably not the expert running a > high-traffic newsfeed. ;-) Well, I ran INN with a UUCP newsfeed for some years, but switched to NNTP streaming transport a few years ago, and also don't deliver any more mail via UUCP (nobody asks for it right now). So, I didn't move the UUCP installation(s) from box to box and upgrade to upgrade... But I'm also not running a "high traffic" news feed, only sort of one (almost?) full text feed. > Let's just get this port running before talking about maintainership, > o.k.? Ok. > It may be worth trying to patch inn to use our /usr/bin/ftp, but I > didn't yet have a closer look at it. Hmm, you mean, one should transfer news via FTP instead of, or in addition to, UUCP? Who else supports that? > ps: I've been busy with other things the last days, but I hope to > do some testing later this week. Well, I don't know if I can keep up. The rest of the week "promises" to be quite busy. Best, --Toni++
