Caveat: Before compiling anything here, go look at README and conf.h
in the "common" directory. Fix conf.h up, and then come back here.
Back already? Ok. Now following the bouncing numbers:
1. Create the access file with the proper entries.
This file goes wherever you said ACCESS_FILE
was supposed to be in common/conf.h. It's format is
explained in the manual entry for nntpd.8c.
A sample access file is in ../support/access_file.
If you don't care who (ab)uses your news server,
you can have the line "default read post" in your access
file, which will allow anyone on the network to
read and post news via your server. See the manual
page for a better explanation.
Parts two and three are necessary if you're running with TCP:
2. Make an entry for "nntp" in /etc/services. Should
be port number 119, tcp. I.e., should look something like:
nntp 119/tcp readnews # Network News Transfer Protocol
Sun users running yp should yppush this file to make sure all
the clients get it.
3. Check ../common/conf.h to make sure you're set to do what
you want to do with inetd (i.e., #define ALONE or #undef ALONE).
If you are using inetd,
a. Add a line to /etc/inetd.conf, or whatever your
configuration file is, to reflect the presence
of the news server. On 4.3 BSD machines and on Suns
running SunOS 4.X, this should look like:
nntp stream tcp nowait root /etc/nntpd nntpd
while under Ultrix or 4.2 BSD machines:
nntp stream tcp nowait /etc/nntpd nntpd
On a Sun running SunOS 3.X the file is /etc/servers;
the line looks like:
nntp tcp /usr/etc/in.nntpd
Be sure to yppush your /etc/servers file if you run
yellow pages.
Don't forget to kill -HUP your inetd (or kill it and restart
it if you are on SunOS prior to version 4.1).
If you're NOT using inetd,
a. Edit ../common/conf.h to have the line
#define ALONE
to compile in code for the stand alone server.
b. You may as well also define "FASTFORK" in
../common/conf.h. This causes the server not to
read in the active file every time it forks, but
rather to stat it every READINTVL seconds, and if
the file has changed since the last read, to
read it in again. This makes the children run
faster, since they don't have to read the active
file every time the parent forks off a child, but
the parent server will eat more cpu, doing
stat()s every 10 minutes or so. If your server machine
is heavily loaded, you might leave this out.
c. Change /etc/rc.local to start the server at
boot time.
Else, if you're using decnet:
2. && 3. Define the NNTP object with ncp:
ncp define object NNTP number 0 file /etc/nntpd
ncp define object NNTP default user guest type stream
ncp set object NNTP all # just once for the running system
4. Compile the server by doing "make".
5. Cd .. and continue with the rest of the stuff; you'll
wind up doing a make install later.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.