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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!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!usenet From: Eli Lazich <elazich@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: INNd for FreeBSD 2.0.5 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:18:35 -0600 Organization: Eli Lazich & Associates Lines: 46 Message-ID: <30E2ED8B.3B8A@mcs.com> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.951226230555.23694A-100000@dsu2.deltast.edu> <4bsee8$sc@parody.tecc.co.uk> <DKA0z6.Jnw@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elazich.pr.mcs.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (Win95; I) > 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 Does Anyone have a definitive answer to how to set INN up? I used the ports dir from the 2.0.5 CD and got errors galore using inn1.4sec.tar.z, the most amusing of which was that tha Makefile called for a file with a suffix of Z while mine was of course z. Also got errors referring to the patches needed which I was able to take out of the Makefile but then FreeBSD's patches didn't seem to take either. In any case I have a half-compiled system which does me no good of course. So if anyone has the answer fro 2.0.5 I'd appreciate it. Eli