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