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1 SETTING UP A TEST ENVIRONMENT
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3 last update: $Id: testing.txt 323 2001-11-11 04:20:28Z mirkol $
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4 written by: Mirko Liß, Nov 2001
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7 This document describes how to set up a testing environment for the unstable
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8 developer version of NOFFLE on a linux box.
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10 You might not want to connect to the outside world with your newest hack.
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11 It's much better to install a stable version of NOFFLE and let it feed
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12 postings to the developer version.
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14 The procedure step-by-step:
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16 1. Install a stable version of noffle as usual. Or INN, if you have to
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17 blemish your soul by straying from the flock. Use this server to get
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18 articles from the common usenet and to act as an upstream server for
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19 your hacked version of noffle.
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21 2. Install your hack with:
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22 ./configure --enable-debug=yes --with-spooldir=$ANYWHERE/spool/noffle \
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23 --with-configfile=$ANYWHERE/etc/noffle.conf \
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24 --with-docdir=$ANYWHERE/doc \
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25 --prefix=$ANYWHERE/usr/local --program-suffix=hack
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26 make
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27 make install
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28 Now the binary should be installed at:
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29 $ANYWHERE/local/bin/nofflehack
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30 Create a link to inews if you want to test that mode as well.
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32 3. Edit $ANYWHERE/etc/noffle.conf:
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33 server localhost
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34 log-debug all
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35 If you changed the syslog ident or the facility (to LOG_USER)
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36 ( see: grep Log_init src/noffle.c ), you have to edit
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37 /etc/syslog.conf and eventually create new empty logfiles.
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40 4. If you have to delete the database, just type:
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41 make install-data-local
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42 to get rid of the strange error messages.
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44 5. If you want to use nofflehack in server mode, just add another port
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45 entry to /etc/services. Assigned Port numbers are listed at:
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46 http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
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47 Then add another line to /etc/inetd.conf (or whatever you use).
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48 Don't forget to tell your newsreader about the port number you chose.
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50 If you want to tamper with the article database, there are various nice
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51 gdbm tools available for Perl or Python. I often prefer shell-scripts
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52 and used gdbm-primitive-1.15.tar.gz listed at http://freshmeat.net.
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53 Be careful with file locking, though.
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