Re: News server running as stand-alone daemon

[naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Felix Kronlage <felix_(_at_)_mad_(_dot_)_hazardous_(_dot_)_org> wrote:

> > There are also some packaging issues with regard to the news spool.
> 
> You mean, the type of news spool used?

No, that's a runtime configuration option.

You have to consider the directory layout of an INN port.  FreeBSD
puts everything under /usr/local/news, which is very simple but
outrageously violates hier(7).  More sensibly, you'll need to break
some things out to /etc and /var.

Dealing with PATHETC is probably easy.  Define it to /etc, move
the contents to usr/share/examples/inn after the fake install, and
handle it with the usual INSTALL script.  But what do you do with
PATHDB and the /var/news/ hierarchy?

Quite some time ago I installed a FreeBSD INN package that didn't
do anything to build the required directories in /var/news.  It
took me the better part of an afternoon of trial and error to create
all required directories with the right permissions (INN is somewhat
fussy there) by hand.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de