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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: INNd for FreeBSD 2.0.5 References: <Pine.A32.3.91.951226230555.23694A-100000@dsu2.deltast.edu> <4bsee8$sc@parody.tecc.co.uk> Organization: Mordor International Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 03:13:54 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DKA0z6.Jnw@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 35 James Raynard (james@parody.tecc.co.uk) wrote: : In article <Pine.A32.3.91.951226230555.23694A-100000@dsu2.deltast.edu>, : Stacy Trippe <strippe@dsu2.deltast.edu> wrote: : >Can anyone give me any tips/tricks/hints as to where I can get INNd for : >FreeBSD 2.0.5 and what to watch out for when installing/configuring INNd? : It comes in the ports distribution with 2.0.5 (there's also a package, but : it's better to compile it yourself - in fact I believe the package has been : dropped from 2.1.0 as it was too difficult to make one that was general : enough). : The main 'gotcha' with INN on FreeBSD is that using MMAP is known to cause : occasional system crashes due to a bug in the MMAP implementation! However, : the performance without MMAP is almost as good as with it, due to the very : sophisticated FreeBSD VM system. : Apart from that, INN is one of those things for which you really do have to : read and understand all the documentation - fortunately there's a very good : FAQ which is posted to the news.software.nntp newsgroup. Although from your : .sig you probably knew that already 8-) I had a hard enough time trying to get it to work that I decided to use the tried and true cnews+nntp, though it took a while to find a working nntp. This may have been pilot error on my part, but I found the documentation for inn to be a bit cryptic. Since I'd been using cnews for years, I went with "the devil I knew". :-) Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451