The news server 4. The news server 4.1 Installing the news server You need to install a news server.
Many distributions have a graphical tool for choosing which daemons run.
For much of the news config you will need to be the user news . Remember, the newsgroup will be local , so start it with a distinctive name so you can filter it out from your news distributions if you do that stuff. I shamelessly named my newsgroup ietf.confctrl . The words from left to right go from less to more specific. Indicating a moderated group is done by specifying m to the newgroup command.