Re: [inn] How to have more than one server

[Kevin Falcone <kevin@jibsheet.com>]

>>>>> "HP" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

HP> I want to just say download these groups, put them in a newsrc or
HP> something and thats that, no tricky heuristics or the like.

slrnpull does this.  I have /var/spool/neu/slrnpull.conf which lists
groups I want to read.  /var/spool/news is a symlink to
/var/spool/neu/news and I have two cron jobs, one to periodically
download news and one each day to expire.  slrnpull wants inews to
post, but I have a little shell script which tricks it into putting
things into the out.going directory for slrnpull to post later.

This was my setup for at least 4 years until I installed INN locally
as a precursor to upgrading a production box.

However, this means you use nnspool and not nntp as your select
method, as you'll be reading right out of the filesystem.

-kevin

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