[cobalt-users] Re: INN on a Qube2

[John Morley <jmorley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Hauser wrote:
> 
> Instead of INN, I'm using leafnode 1.9.9 successfully.
> 
> Get it from http://www.freshmeat.net
> find leafnode
> 
> It's supposed to be better (than INN) for serving news to small user
> groups as are apt to be found attached to a Qube2.
> 
> One "problem" with news sw and the Qube is the relatively small size of
> the /var partition. (I have not yet modified my version of leafnode to
> work out of /home.) It uses /var/spool/news to keep news articles.
> 
> The leafnode installation is nowhere near as easy as installing an rpm
> or pkg. You've got to be comfortable with running GNU config and the
> resulting make file, editing inetd.conf and cron by hand, and restarting
> inetd manually, but since you asked about INN, I figured you know about
> these kinds of things <g>.

Thanks for your suggestion, John.  I have installed a much earlier
version of INN than is current on an Intel box and I'd prefer to
stay with INN.  Since /home/spool already exists it is a simple
matter to mkdir /home/spool/news and symlink /var/spool/news to it
with ln -s /home/spool/news /var/spool/news rather /var/spool/mail
is symlinked to /home/spool/mail

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John Morley (jmorley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)