NOFFLE Installation


For compiling NOFFLE there are the following requirements:

For installing NOFFLE on your system, the following steps are necessary:

Now you are ready, configure the client readers to use "localhost" port 119 as news server and/or set the environment variable NNTPSERVER to "localhost" and/or create the file /etc/nntpserver containing "localhost".

If something goes wrong, have a look at '/var/log/news' for error and logging messages.

It can be helpful to recompile NOFFLE with the -DDEBUG option to increase the level of logged details. Additionally, the -DDEBUG option will create a core file in the spool directory if NOFFLE should crash. This will allow those of you familiar with a debugger to send me a detailed bug report :-)