From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Summary: Problems & Solutions getting INN to work
Date: 18 Nov 1992 15:49:20 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <1e08diINNkce@apache.dtcc.edu> weave@apache.dtcc.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
>Tom Limoncelli's "Debugging guide to Inn" that was posted to
>news.software.nntp was a VERY useful tool.  Rich Saltz's FAQ list was also
>very helpful in getting Inn running here. I hope both of these documents
>end up in the distribution files for INN.
Neither document will be part of INN because I don't want to include a
tutorial -- someone should contact O'Reilly and make a few bucks writing
one for them. :-)  More importantly, Tom's document is Tom's and he could
update whenever and however he wants, and not have to wait, e.g., for
"patch3."  The FAQ, too, will be appearing more often; no doubt many
INN sites will archive the FAQ with the sources.

>And most importantly, I am really grateful to Rich Salz for making INN
>possible!
thanks for the kind words -- looking forward to my postcard.

>What would help newcomers I believe is an example of a minimal newsfeeds 
>setup for a new site that has one site feeding them, and be able to 
>post stuff back to that site.
patch3 fixes the manpages a bit to handle this.  Did you read the setting
up a new feed appendix in the install manual?

>Another mistake I made was running news.daily manually as root the first
>time.
Right, "don't do that."  patch3 makes this more clear in news.daily.8:
 .I "This program should be run under the news administrator's id, not as root."

>  my
>brain parsed the comment "Local NNTP server host to connect to" to mean
>the host that was feeding me.  This actually still worked OK.
Only because your site is sloppy about who they allow to post...

>What do I do with the moderators file?
The official advice from the maintainer of the posting (Spaf) is that you
should not use the file because the information changes more rapidly then
the article is posted.  (I happen to think it's probably updated "fast enough"
so if you want to use it, go ahead.)  The moderators file is never updated,
although a minor perl script to do this (I've seen it) is about 30 lines.

>Am I going to have problems running mthreads in daemon mode?
mthreads is unware of innd, and as far as I know it is read-only on the
news system.  There are people running it with no problems.  I think Geoff's
"nov" package is a better choice, however.

>         !!!!!!!!! HOW DO I TURN THIS DAMN THING OFF !!!!!!!!!
>There was no script for shutdown.
Shutting down the server is documented in ctlinnd.8.  Shutting down the
auxiliary scripts (send-uucp, news.daily, etc) is harder although the
careful reader of doc/shlock.1 may figure out how to do a shutdown lock
using the shell "||" construct -- or they can wait for patch 3 or 4.

>Should I create an rc script that
>runs on shutdown to throttle and then shutdown the server, or will a
>SIGTERM cause the proper cleanup and disconnection?
Either one.

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