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1.1       root        1:      Caveat: Before compiling anything here, go look at README and conf.h
                      2: in the "common" directory.  Fix conf.h up, and then come back here.
                      3: 
                      4:      Back already?  Ok.  Now following the bouncing numbers:
                      5: 
                      6:        1. Create the access file with the proper entries.
                      7:           This file goes wherever you said ACCESS_FILE
                      8:           was supposed to be in common/conf.h.  It's format is
                      9:           explained in the manual entry for nntpd.8c.
                     10:           A sample access file is in ../support/access_file.
                     11:           If you don't care who (ab)uses your news server,
                     12:           you can have the line "default read post" in your access
                     13:           file, which will allow anyone on the network to
                     14:           read and post news via your server.  See the manual
                     15:           page for a better explanation.
                     16: 
                     17:        2. Make an entry for "nntp" in /etc/services.  Should
                     18:           be port number 119, tcp.  I.e., should look something like:
                     19: 
                     20: nntp           119/tcp         readnews untp   # Network News Transfer Protocol
                     21: 
                     22:        3. Check ../common/conf.h to make sure you're set to do what
                     23:           you want to do with inetd (i.e., #define ALONE or #undef ALONE).
                     24:           If you are using inetd,
                     25: 
                     26:           a. Add a line to /etc/inetd.conf, or whatever your
                     27:              configuration file is, to reflect the presence
                     28:              of the news server.  This should look like:
                     29: 
                     30: nntp   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /etc/nntpd      nntpd
                     31: 
                     32:              Don't forget to kill -HUP your inetd later...
                     33: 
                     34:           If you're NOT using inetd,
                     35: 
                     36:           a. Edit ../common/conf.h to have the line
                     37: 
                     38:                        #define ALONE
                     39: 
                     40:              to compile in code for the stand alone server.
                     41: 
                     42:           b. You may as well also define "FASTFORK" in
                     43:              ../common/conf.h.  This causes the server not to
                     44:              read in the active file every time it forks, but
                     45:              rather to stat it every READINTVL seconds, and if
                     46:              the file has changed since the last read, to
                     47:              read it in again.  This makes the children run
                     48:              faster, since they don't have to read the active
                     49:              file every time the parent forks off a child, but
                     50:              the parent server will eat more cpu, doing
                     51:              stat()s every 10 minutes or so.  If your server machine
                     52:              is heavily loaded, you might leave this out.
                     53: 
                     54:           c. Change /etc/rc.local to start the server at
                     55:              boot time.
                     56: 
                     57:        4. Compile the server by doing "make".
                     58: 
                     59:        5. Cd .. and continue with the rest of the stuff; you'll
                     60:           wind up doing a make install later.

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