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annotate INSTALL @ 142:ffbb0497402c noffle
[svn] Noffle no longer hangs if the connection breaks down during a fetch.
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2 NOFFLE Installation |
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5 Requirements |
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8 * The gdbm library must be installed on your system (standard with most |
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11 * Please use the same compiler for compiling NOFFLE that was used for |
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12 compiling the gdbm library! |
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13 The reason for this warning is that there is an incompatibility between |
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14 egcs and gcc that causes programs to crash on some distributions, depending |
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17 * The program "mail" must be available, because failed postings are returned |
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18 to the sender by calling it (with option -s and by piping message text |
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21 * The program "sort" must be available (standard with most distributions). |
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24 Compilation and installation |
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25 ---------------------------- |
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27 For installing NOFFLE on your system, the following steps are necessary: |
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31 make install |
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34 configure. |
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35 Apart from the standard ones, the following options can be used: |
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37 --enable-debug Turn on debugging (default=yes) |
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38 --with-docdir=PATH Specify where to put the documentation. |
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39 Default is /usr/local/doc/noffle. |
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41 * Copy '/etc/noffle.conf.example' to '/etc/noffle.conf' and edit it. |
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42 Write in the name of the remote news server. |
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44 Change the owner to 'news': |
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45 chown news.news /etc/noffle.conf |
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47 Make it unreadable by others, if it contains a username and a password: |
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48 chmod o-r /etc/noffle.conf |
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50 Now you can leave the root account. |
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52 * Go online and run |
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54 noffle --query groups # required |
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55 noffle --query desc # optional group descriptions |
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58 number of active newsgroups at the remote news server. |
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64 noffle --subscribe-thread <newsgroup> |
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76 nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/noffle -r |
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82 /usr/local/bin/noffle --fetch |
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83 /usr/local/bin/noffle --online |
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95 delete all articles not accessed recently. The default expiry period is |
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96 14 days, but this can be changed in /etc/noffle.conf. |
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99 Now you are ready, configure the client readers to use "localhost" port 119 |
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101 and/or create the file /etc/nntpserver containing "localhost". |
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103 If something goes wrong, have a look at '/var/log/news' for error and |
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104 logging messages. |
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111 make install |
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140 to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail |
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146 called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.in' if you want to change |
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188 env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure |
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242 you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and |
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