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From: Barnabyh on 13 Dec 2009 16:39 What would be a good local news server to run at home, apart from leafnode? Years ago around 2001 or so I ran hamster on Windows, something similar would be sweet. Thanks - Barnabyh -- The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants. (Comment on Slashdot, Monday March 28 2005, @11:02AM, Gnome Removed From Slackware.)
From: Lew Pitcher on 13 Dec 2009 16:56 On December 13, 2009 16:39, in alt.os.linux.slackware, invalid(a)address.org wrote: > What would be a good local news server to run at home, apart from > leafnode? To what purpose? To serve your home standalone (i.e., no feeds to or from outside)? Or, to serve a small group of readers (like a family) with a limited number of external newsgroups? Or, to serve a large community (such as a large network or ISP might), with a large number of external newsgroups? Slackware comes with INN, which is an "industrial strength" news server. Useful for large communities, but requires a moderate amount of setup, including storage space and peering agreements. Leafnode is pretty good for small groups of readers, and can be run "standalone" without access to the outside. It doesn't scale up well, but otherwise is more than capable of handling a home-user's requirements. If you want outside posting, you will have to contract with a news service, and configure Leafnode to read/post to that service (it acts as if it were a standalone newsreader). I used to run Leafnode when I was on dialup, periodically exchanging posts, so that I wouldn't tie up the phone line. It works well, although it's setup has gotten a lot more sophisticated since I ran it last. > Years ago around 2001 or so I ran hamster on Windows, something similar > would be sweet. I've never heard of Hamster. But then again, I don't do Windows (in my experience, it's not the sort of platform you really want to run a server on) FWIW, I recommend Leafnode, unless you have a large community and some dedicated storage for INN. HTH -- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | Registered Linux User #112576 Me: http://pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca/ | Just Linux: http://justlinux.ca/ ---------- Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing. ------
From: Aaron W. Hsu on 13 Dec 2009 17:47 Barnabyh <invalid(a)address.org> writes: >What would be a good local news server to run at home, apart from >leafnode? Years ago around 2001 or so I ran hamster on Windows, >something similar would be sweet. I am not sure what you want to do for it, but like I mentioned in another post, if you are interested in nnmaster, I'd be happy to help with the nn package available in Slackware. Aaron W. Hsu -- A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
From: Ewald Pfau on 13 Dec 2009 18:38 > User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Barnabyh <invalid(a)address.org>: > What would be a good local news server to run at home, apart from > leafnode? Years ago around 2001 or so I ran hamster on Windows, > something similar would be sweet. When using software, which does not need a server, as slrn or tin, you may access the news-spool directly (in /var/spool/news) and exchange news with slrnpull, part of slrn. For tin, I use three lines for bash, acting as 'inews' program (configured as 'inews_prog' for tin): #!/bin/sh out="/var/spool/slrnpull/out.going" tt=$(mktemp /tmp/XXXXXX); ts=$out/X${tt#/tmp/}.news; mv $tt $ts; while read z; do { echo $z >>$ts; } done Switching from unmaintained 'suck' (for exchange) and 'snews' (as a tiny server), I had minimum effort for 'slrnpull' with two paths linked: /var/spool/slrnpull/news -> /var/spool/news /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going -> var/lib/news/out.going Btw, own postings are not in the spool until refetched, after having been sent from 'out.going', this way.
From: Handover Phist on 13 Dec 2009 18:18
Barnabyh : > What would be a good local news server to run at home, apart from > leafnode? Years ago around 2001 or so I ran hamster on Windows, > something similar would be sweet. > > Thanks - > > > Barnabyh Why not Leafnode? I use it to run a little server to serve the household and the few users find it more than adequate. If you're going to build something big, I think Inn would suit, but I've never set it up so I dont know how much work that would take. AFAICT Hamster is quite old and meant to be set up on win 9[58]?! Yikes. -- The linuX Files -- The Source is Out There. -- Sent in by Craig S. Bell, goat(a)aracnet.com www.websterscafe.com |