Re: Preferred nntp daemon/server?
Turns out that at least part of my problem was that /var/spool/news
itself was not owned/writable by news.news. <grumble>
...though there appear to be other interesting peculiarities to deal
with. Not sure quite how this all sorts out. Error reporting could
definitely be more verbose.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 04:07:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I'd be interested in suggestions for configuring a lightweight,
> periodic-updating news server for my home Debian box.
>
> I'm currently using leafnode and am finding both extensive problems
> (doesn't work, doesn't get articles, doesn't get groups, skips news
> servers), and minimal assistance (few troubleshooting guidelines in the
> documentation, little in the way of Usenet archives relating to my
> probme (at least in English!), no response to debian-user and svlug
> mailing list queries, or news.software.nntp Usenet queries. Posts I do
> find suggest that the program is prone to bugs and silent failures.
>
> So: is there a preferred Usenet configuration for Debian? Is Leafnode
> recommneded, or are there more commonly (and successfully) deployed
> servers? I'm finding information on cnews, newsx, inn, and nntp. Which
> (if any) of these are people using?
>
> Leafnode is very cool in concept -- only articles from groups currently
> being read are downloaded. In practice, results are less impressive.
>
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> Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
> What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
>
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>
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What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
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