NEWS service on HPUX

[Praveen R]

Hi,

Can any one give pointers to good documentation on NEWS service on HPUX.

Regards
Praveen R

[Simon Hargrave]

A couple of NNTP ports for HPUX: -

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/News/inn-1.4sec/

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/News/nntp-1.5.11t5/

Never used either so can't comment on which is best etc. Just providing the links ;)

[Paul Cross_1]

This depends on how big your NNTP implementation will be. Large NNTP installations will likely use INN (http://www.isc.org/sw/inn/) smaller installations (fewer readers) will likely want something simpler and lightweight like leafnode (leafnode.org)

[Praveen R]

Hi,

The info is not that helpful. In fact the link provided by Paul is not accessible. Any ways i have assigned points appropriately.

Actually I am looking for document which explains NEWS service concept and implementation. We have a single news server running on HPUX 11.0.

Regards
Praveen R

[Dave Hutton]

Actually Pauls link does work if you cut and paste.

Anyway here's the whitepaper/faq on RFC 977 which defines the Network News Transfer Protocol.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html


If you go to www.faqs.org/faqs and search for a specific engine (like named above), you can find some specific information.

[Praveen R]

Firstly I would like to say sorry to Pauls. Indeed the links works fine and got tons of useful information. Thank you Dave for pointing it out.

I donâ t know if I can reassign points to Paul, if I can please let me know.

Now coming to real problem:

I understood the concept, however I am unable to solve the problem my news server has. We cannot post any new messages on news server, the new posts stays there in the spool "/usr/local/news/spool/incoming".

What could be wrong??

Regrds
Praveen

[Paul Cross_1 · Accepted solution]

I guess I typo'd. oops.

[Praveen R]

Thanks Paul for the link..

Now i am trying to setup INN on Redhat linux. Installation is done, however i am facing some problem in creating newsgroups. I searched the web and tried several command with help of man pages, but I could not get it right for some reason.
I have installed INN 2.4.1 on Redhat Enterprise 3.0. INN is working fine; I am able to telnet port 119 and also can connect from outlook express. However I am unable to see the news group I created. I used the following command:

Ctlinnd newgroup local.test y praveen1@india.hp.com

It gave OK after the command.

I can even see the entry in "active" file. But I cant see it from outlook express or if I telnet to port 119 (listgroup local.test ---gives output---no such group)

Is there any thing I need to enable or I am missing something. In fact if I can get this running then I am planning to move news group from HPUX news server to this, which is running INN 2.2.

I have tried commands from this URL: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Elena.Samsonova/unix/INN/v2.3/implementation.html

Regards
Praveen R

[Paul Cross_1]

Honestly it's been a while, but if I recall, you have to reload the active file.

something like:
#ctlinnd reload active

[Praveen R]

No luck Paul. I am still stuck with the same problem. Can you just tell me how to create new newsgroup on a standalone server. I dont want to enable any news feeds at this point. What i want is just a newsgroup of my own.

Regards
Praveen R

[Paul Cross_1]

Praveen,
Have you gone over your conf files very carefully? It sounds like your readers.conf file might be a problem. have you checked your logs when you try to read (telnet is best because it doesn't cache the active file which I think most readers do)?

-Paul.

[Praveen R]

You solved my problem Paul!! There was syntax error in "readers.conf". Actualy example inside the "readers.conf" seems to be wrong. Because i corrected the sysntax according to "readers.conf" man pages, now it works fine.

Now I am trying to move news groups and posts from INN 2.2 on HPUX to Redhat EN 3.0. INN 2.4. I have INN up and working fine on redhat, I could even move newsgroup, however I could not move posts which are already there is respective newsgroup.

I am using CNFS storage method on both servers. I copied directories from /usr/local/spool/articles to new redhat server and executed following command:

makedbz -i
mv history.n.dir history.dir
mv history.n.hash history.hash
mv history.n.index history.index
chmod 644 *

While running this, it throws a message "invalid message id". I thought copying articles directory should help. But one question I am unable to answer:

Even on my old server: Storage method is set to CNFS, hence it stores posts in a buffer directory specified in cycbuff.conf. But how is it storing posts in /usr/local/news/spool/articles ? Should I copy the buffers directory instead ?

Regards
Praveen R


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Praveen R