History.txt =========== 0.0 (5/1/95) ------------- Initial ALPHA 0.5 (10/01/95) -------------- Released BETA (fixes to fix apparent news posting problems) newsfeeds news.demon.co.uk alias changed from "demon" to "demon-news". nntpsend.ctl news.demon.co.uk alias changed from "demon" to "demon-news". 0.51 (11/01/95) -------------- Returned the 0.0 release: newsfeeds news.demon.co.uk alias changed from "demon-news" to "demon". nntpsend.ctl news.demon.co.uk alias changed from "demon-news" to "demon". The alias is used for checking whether the article has been sent through a specific news server (thus it does not resend an article that has "news.demon.co.uk" or "demon" in the patch header line) Silly me :) 0.6 (15/04/95) --------------- /etc/aliases Added /etc/inetd.conf Removed. Just make sure that the "nntp" line is commented out (I removed it because it was a bit of an overhead just to say that!). slurp Version 1.10 - various improvements, including a error number output on error. I compiled this to put news batches into the correct place (/var/spool/news/in.coming/tmp). getnews Modified for use with new Slurp, to allow news server retries. Also the finished news batch gets moved from .../tmp to the in.coming directory for unbatching. Moved sending of local news to this file ... the filename may be a little misleading now, but who cares ;) Newsfeeds Do not send groups that have been through news2 or peernews. INN.ins * Explanation for aliasing usenet and news users (in /etc/aliases) * Added more FAQS, or rather TAQS (Twice-Asked QuestionS :^) FILES.descript * This got corrupted in 0.51 Permissions Added new file "Permissions", to show file permissions. 0.61 (20/07/95) - packaged released as part of slack-help.2.3 package only. --------------- README Mentioned about Slack-INN being packaged as part of the Slack-help package. Permissions Got rid of file - detarring this package yields the correct permissions, so this is redundant really. INN.ins Mentioned about setting NNTPSERVER for NNTP access for news readers (set in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login). Corrected error in description in a FAQ (when news is being downloaded, it is put in the tmp news spool directory, so the "rnews -U" was not commented out of news crontab for v0.6!). Mentioned about non-usage of news2 in FAQ. Mentioned about "dummy" net driver. Generally explained a few sections better (upon recommendation). FILES.descript Mentioned adding YOURHOST.demon.co.uk, as there is currently a little bugette with the kernel's implementation of sockets (this is a work-round) aliases DELETED. This is covered in the Slack-help base package. hosts DELETED. INN gives an error in /var/adm/syslog on loading, but it's another of those "still works" type messages (ie it gives the error, but still works fine). A suitable hosts file is covered in the BASIC package. expire.ctl Change news.announce.newusers to expire after 31 days (there would be a bit of a build-up otherwise ;) hosts.nntp Added YOURHOST entry. Added "pubnews" entry (as backup). disrupt and disturb are two other currently named backup news servers which could be added (and to slurp.sys), but where do you stop? My *guess* is, when the distributed news server comes on-line, the only names you should be using are "news" and "pubnews". A futher word of warning on this - pubnews is not a guaranteed news server, so you shouldn't rely on it. nnrpd.access Added YOURHOST entry slurp Recompiled v1.10, setting the number of free blocks to zero (default is 4000 = 4MB). This was done so that people who have small news spool areas and only download a small(ish) amount of news (and I found it a pain ;^). Set batch files to download to .../in.coming/tmp, to save unbatching corruption. For those who want to use your own settings, download the source and recompile. I also changed the file ownership of "slurp" to news.news (from root.root) ... oops. slurp.sys Deleted comp.os.linux entry (expired group). Duplicated all newsgroup entries for server "pubnews.demon.co.uk" (use as a backup server). start.dip DELETED. This is now covered in the BASIC package's start.dip. getnews Name changed - to "procnews", to specify better what it does. Copied and modified John Phillips's new procnews for use with INN (for standardisation). 0.62 (06/05/96) - packaged released as part of slack-help.2.3 package only. --------------- slurp Recompiled for ELF (left an aout version aswell). ELF version has header size limit changed from 512 bytes to 2048 bytes (this is to fix the problem with SLURP splitting header lines on 512 byte, and causing INN to reject the article).