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| date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:54:32 +0000 |
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| 1 NOFFLE for Debian | |
| 2 ----------------- | |
| 3 | |
| 4 This is the first debian package of noffle, so be prepared for some rough | |
| 5 edges. By all means, _please_ report any bugs you find! (and do so through | |
| 6 the debian bug tracking system, http://bugs.debian.org/) | |
| 7 | |
| 8 The standard configuration is stored in /etc/news/noffle.conf, see the | |
| 9 manpage for noffle.conf(5) for more info. | |
| 10 | |
| 11 IMPORTANT: Once it's been configured, you need to run the following steps | |
| 12 before it will work properly: | |
| 13 | |
| 14 noffle --query groups | |
| 15 noffle --query desc (see note) | |
| 16 noffle --fetch | |
| 17 | |
| 18 The first fetches the list of available newsgroups from the server. The | |
| 19 second fetches the descriptions of the newsgroups. This isn't required, | |
| 20 but sometimes it can be useful to have those descriptions. The third | |
| 21 actually fetches the articles the first time. After the first time, how | |
| 22 articles can be fetched is decided by the "mode" (see next paragraph). | |
| 23 | |
| 24 Noffle on Debian can run in basically two "modes": via PPP and via cron. | |
| 25 The difference is that in PPP mode, it goes online and fetches any | |
| 26 requested articles when the PPP connection is made, whereas in cron mode | |
| 27 it is always online and fetches articles every 30 minutes (edit | |
| 28 /etc/cron.d/noffle to adjust). The mode is configured via | |
| 29 /etc/default/noffle. Of course, the PPP mode can be misused to control | |
| 30 the fetching by hand (i.e. by running "noffle --fetch"). | |
| 31 | |
| 32 Every day (via cron.daily) an expire is done. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 -- Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>, Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:55:36 +0200 | |
| 35 -- Martin A. Godisch <godisch@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Sat, 04 Jan 2003 09:30:20 +0100 | |
| 36 | |
| 37 | |
| 38 Regarding security when authenticating to your NNTP server please keep | |
| 39 two aspects in mind: | |
| 40 | |
| 41 1. Your username and password will be stored in plaintext two times on your | |
| 42 harddisk, readable by everyone at least in the group 'news'. | |
| 43 2. Your username and password will be transmitted in plaintext over the wire. | |
| 44 | |
| 45 If you have an SSH account on a host which is authenticated to your NNTP | |
| 46 server by itself, you may consider to open an SSH tunnel to that host and | |
| 47 to use localhost as NNTP proxy for noffle. This tunnel can be created using | |
| 48 some kind of | |
| 49 | |
| 50 ssh -fNL 10119:remote.news.server:119 mylogin@remote.ssh.server | |
| 51 | |
| 52 in combination with SSH public key authentication, which yields | |
| 53 | |
| 54 localhost:10119 | |
| 55 | |
| 56 as "remote" NNTP server for noffle. Have a look at the SSH manuals for | |
| 57 further information. | |
| 58 | |
| 59 -- Martin A. Godisch <godisch@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Sat, 04 Jan 2003 09:30:20 +0100 | |
| 60 | |
| 61 | |
| 62 There are three low-traffic mailing lists concerning noffle, visit | |
| 63 | |
| 64 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/noffle-announce | |
| 65 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/noffle-devel | |
| 66 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/noffle-users | |
| 67 | |
| 68 if you are interested. | |
| 69 | |
| 70 -- Martin A. Godisch <godisch@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:20:58 +0100 |