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<h1>NOFFLE Installation</h1>
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For compiling NOFFLE there are the following requirements:
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The gdbm library must be installed on your system (standard with
most distributions).
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Please use the same compiler for compiling NOFFLE that was
used for compiling the gdbm library!
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The reason for this warning is that there is an incompatibility between
egcs and gcc that causes programs to crash on some distributions,
depending on the optimisation level.
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The program "mail" must be available, because failed postings are
returned to the sender by calling it (with option -s and by piping
message text into it).
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The program "sort" must be available (standard with most distributions).
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For installing NOFFLE on your system, the following steps are necessary:
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Edit the Makefile. Change SPOOLDIR and PREFIX, if you do not
like the defaults.
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Type 'make'.
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Log in as root and type 'make install'.
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Copy '&lt;PREFIX&gt;/doc/noffle/noffle.conf.example' to '/etc/noffle.conf' and
edit it. Write in the name of the remote news server.
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Change the owner to 'news':
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         chown news.news /etc/noffle.conf
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Make it unreadable by others, if it contains a username and a password:
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         chmod o-r /etc/noffle.conf
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Now you can leave the root account.
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Go online and run
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         noffle --query groups # required
         noffle --query desc   # optional group descriptions
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to retrieve newsgroup information.
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This may take a while depending on the number of active newsgroups
at the remote news server.
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Subscribe to some groups by running
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         noffle --subscribe-over <groupname>
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or
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         noffle --subscribe-thread <groupname>
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or
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         noffle --subscribe-full <groupname>
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Then run
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         noffle --fetch
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for testing the retrieving of overviews/articles of the groups subscribed.
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Add a line for 'noffle' to '/etc/inetd.conf':
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         nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/noffle -r
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(Change the path of noffle if necessary)
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Add the following lines to your 'ip-up' script:
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         /usr/local/bin/noffle --fetch
         /usr/local/bin/noffle --online
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Add the following line to your 'ip-down' script:
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         /usr/local/bin/noffle --offline
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Add a line for running noffle to the crontab of news (by running
'crontab -u news -e' as root):
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         0 19 * * 1 /usr/local/bin/noffle --expire 14
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(if you want to run 'noffle' on Monday (1st day of week) at
19.00 and delete all articles not accessed within the last 14 days).
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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".
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If something goes wrong, have a look at '/var/log/news' for error and
logging messages.
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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 :-)

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author	enz
date	Mon, 01 May 2000 10:23:31 +0100
parents	04124a4423d4
children	8e972daaeab9