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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mdisea!uw-coco!nwnexus!deanstoy!dean From: dean@deanstoy.wa.com (Dean M. Phillips) Subject: Re: How to Install News for NetBSD Organization: None whatsoever! Summary: takes some work References: <1993Jul20.032058.16216@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au> Message-ID: <CAJGz6.34w@deanstoy.wa.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 23:52:17 GMT Lines: 42 In article <1993Jul20.032058.16216@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au> tdwyer@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au (Terry Dwyer 4915161) writes: >I am about to start researching the installation of News on my NetBSD-0.8 >machine. As a news user I have only a vague understanding of what is >required and no idea where to get it. > >I can arrange for a news feed from a machine on the same net as myself, >and there is at least one other that would like to take a mail feed from >me If I can set up a mail server. The reason behind this is that the >machine I get my news from at the moment has limited disk space, and I >often miss news in the groups I am interested in. I have news running on my 386bsd at home. Here is a quick summary of the major places to stumble: 1) get bash, gmake, gcc 2.X, cnews, trn (or your favorite reader). 2) Make uucp work. (Read the info files that come with the original distribution for the whole scoop on configuration files.) 3) Edit all the scripts which come with cnews and replace every occurence of /bin/sh with /usr/local/bin/bash (or wherever you put it). 4) Build cnews using bash, gmake and gcc 2.x 5) Install cnews in the directories you want it. Some hand-hacking of the intall scripts is required (Too long ago to remember the details). 6) Change the permissions on all the scripts from execute only to read-execute for group and other. (On 386bsd, if you can't read a script, you can't execute it). 7) Set up uucp to accept news 8) Post an article and steal it out of the uucp queue before it gets sent. Feed it to your rnews (as user uucp) instead and make sure that it does not bomb out with permission denied or some such. 9) Have fun! -- Dean M. Phillips dean@deanstoy.wa.com