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1 NOFFLE for Debian
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2 -----------------
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4 This is the first debian package of noffle, so be prepared for some rough
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5 edges. By all means, _please_ report any bugs you find! (and do so through
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6 the debian bug tracking system, http://bugs.debian.org/)
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8 The standard configuration is stored in /etc/news/noffle.conf, see the
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9 manpage for noffle.conf(5) for more info.
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11 IMPORTANT: Once it's been configured, you need to run the following steps
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12 before it will work properly:
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14 noffle --query groups
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15 noffle --query desc (see note)
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16 noffle --fetch
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18 The first fetches the list of available newsgroups from the server. The
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19 second fetches the descriptions of the newsgroups. This isn't required,
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20 but sometimes it can be useful to have those descriptions. The third
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21 actually fetches the articles the first time. After the first time, how
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22 articles can be fetched is decided by the "mode" (see next paragraph).
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24 Noffle on Debian can run in basically two "modes": via PPP and via cron.
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25 The difference is that in PPP mode, it goes online and fetches any
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26 requested articles when the PPP connection is made, whereas in cron mode
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27 it is always online and fetches articles every 30 minutes (edit
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28 /etc/cron.d/noffle to adjust). The mode is configured via
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29 /etc/default/noffle. Of course, the PPP mode can be misused to control
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30 the fetching by hand (i.e. by running "noffle --fetch").
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32 Every day (via cron.daily) an expire is done.
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34 -- Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>, Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:55:36 +0200
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35 -- Martin A. Godisch <godisch@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Sat, 04 Jan 2003 09:30:20 +0100
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38 Regarding security when authenticating to your NNTP server please keep
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39 two aspects in mind:
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41 1. Your username and password will be stored in plaintext two times on your
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42 harddisk, readable by everyone at least in the group 'news'.
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43 2. Your username and password will be transmitted in plaintext over the wire.
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45 If you have an SSH account on a host which is authenticated to your NNTP
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46 server by itself, you may consider to open an SSH tunnel to that host and
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47 to use localhost as NNTP proxy for noffle. This tunnel can be created using
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48 some kind of
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50 ssh -fNL 10119:remote.news.server:119 mylogin@remote.ssh.server
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52 in combination with SSH public key authentication, which yields
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54 localhost:10119
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56 as "remote" NNTP server for noffle. Have a look at the SSH manuals for
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57 further information.
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59 -- Martin A. Godisch <godisch@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Sat, 04 Jan 2003 09:30:20 +0100
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62 There are three low-traffic mailing lists concerning noffle, visit
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64 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/noffle-announce
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65 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/noffle-devel
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66 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/noffle-users
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68 if you are interested.
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70 -- Martin A. Godisch <godisch@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:20:58 +0100
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