I'd like to set up a caching news server on my Mandrake 8 linux
machine to support a small community of users here at work.
However, I'm not familiar with setting up a regular news feed,
let alone configuring and maintaining 'nntpcache', and the
existing docs for nntpcache seem not too verbose or descriptive.
I have downloaded and installed the last stable RPM for
nntpcache, and would like to know what I need to do to set things
up.
Here's what I know so far:
(a) I have downloaded and installed the RPM, and read the two man
pages (for newshound and nntpcached).
(b) I know enough about maintaining my linux machine that I know
how to see all the files that came in the RPM; how to set up
a script to manage starting and stopping the nntpcache daemon
(I've done it for other things).
(c) I know that I'll need to get access to remote news servers on
port 119 (i.e. access on port 119 through our
firewall). Persumably, I will also have to service requests
on port 119 from my local machine as well.
Would anyone mind giving me a leg up here?
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Viktor Haag Senior Technical Writer, RIM
Results of today's Quote-O-Matic:
"But what these movies...often do not understand is that the act
of being buried in crap is not in and of itself funny."
