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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: Parts two and three are necessary if you're running with TCP:
                     18: 
                     19:        2. Make an entry for "nntp" in /etc/services.  Should
                     20:           be port number 119, tcp.  I.e., should look something like:
                     21: 
                     22: nntp           119/tcp         readnews        # Network News Transfer Protocol
                     23: 
                     24:           Sun users running yp should yppush this file to make sure all
                     25:           the clients get it.
                     26: 
                     27:        3. Check ../common/conf.h to make sure you're set to do what
                     28:           you want to do with inetd (i.e., #define ALONE or #undef ALONE).
                     29:           If you are using inetd,
                     30: 
                     31:           a. Add a line to /etc/inetd.conf, or whatever your
                     32:              configuration file is, to reflect the presence
                     33:              of the news server.  On 4.3 BSD machines this should
                     34:              look like:
                     35: 
                     36: nntp   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /etc/nntpd      nntpd
                     37: 
                     38:              while under Ultrix or 4.2 BSD machines:
                     39: 
                     40: nntp   stream  tcp     nowait  /etc/nntpd      nntpd
                     41: 
                     42:              On a Sun, the file is /etc/servers; the line looks like:
                     43: 
                     44: nntp   tcp     /usr/etc/in.nntpd
                     45: 
                     46:              Be sure to yppush your /etc/servers file if you run
                     47:              yellow pages.
                     48: 
                     49:              Don't forget to kill -HUP your inetd.
                     50: 
                     51:           If you're NOT using inetd,
                     52: 
                     53:           a. Edit ../common/conf.h to have the line
                     54: 
                     55:                        #define ALONE
                     56: 
                     57:              to compile in code for the stand alone server.
                     58: 
                     59:           b. You may as well also define "FASTFORK" in
                     60:              ../common/conf.h.  This causes the server not to
                     61:              read in the active file every time it forks, but
                     62:              rather to stat it every READINTVL seconds, and if
                     63:              the file has changed since the last read, to
                     64:              read it in again.  This makes the children run
                     65:              faster, since they don't have to read the active
                     66:              file every time the parent forks off a child, but
                     67:              the parent server will eat more cpu, doing
                     68:              stat()s every 10 minutes or so.  If your server machine
                     69:              is heavily loaded, you might leave this out.
                     70: 
                     71:           c. Change /etc/rc.local to start the server at
                     72:              boot time.
                     73: 
                     74: Else, if you're using decnet:
                     75: 
                     76:        2. && 3. Define the NNTP object with ncp:
                     77: 
                     78: ncp define object NNTP number 0 file /etc/nntpd
                     79: ncp define object NNTP default user guest type stream
                     80: 
                     81: ncp set object NNTP all                        # just once for the running system
                     82: 
                     83:        4. Compile the server by doing "make".
                     84: 
                     85:        5. Cd .. and continue with the rest of the stuff; you'll
                     86:           wind up doing a make install later.

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