Jon,I was running INN on a RedHat system for awhile. This should be able to run on a RaQ without any serious issues.
As someone else asked, you'll really want to ask yourself why you want to run news, particularly on the RaQ. If you are pulling a full Usenet feed, you'll easily chew up most of the disk space on the RaQ, not to mention the bandwidth to get that news to your server. I believe a full Usenet feed is several Gig a day.
Another thing to watch is your free inodes on the file system where you intend to keep your news articles. I was pulling a very restricted feed, but had to keep my articles on a dedicated file system that I established to handle the inode limits. Basically, each article is stored as a seperate file, and thus consumes one inode. I don't recall the default inode setup for a file system, but you will easily exceed this this with any real news volume. This was easy to counter on my RedHat box, but I don't know how much repartitioning of the disk you'll want to do in the RaQ.
Just my thoughts. Let me know if you have any questions. Charlie At 04:15 PM 10/26/2000 +0100, you wrote:
I need to set up a News server onto a Cobalt Raq 3 (currently running an FTP site and DNS). Which News server is good? Is there anything I should think about when installing one?