INN

From Douglas Hunley

Installing INN as a stand-alone news server on your Linux workstation is easy.

The steps to install it are as follows:

1. Download the latest stable release from ISC.org^e
2. Extract the tarball like so:
3. • tar zxvf inn-2.3.2.tar.gz
   • cd inn-2.3.2
4. Configure the software:
5. • ./configure --prefix=/opt/inn \
   • --sysconfdir=/etc \
   • --localstatedir=/var/state \
   • --enable-libtool \
   • --with-log-dir=/var/log \
   • --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail \
   • --enable-tagged-hash \
   • --with-perl \
   • --enable-shared \
   • --with-gnu-ld
6. Compile it:
7. • make
8. Create the news system group:
9. • groupadd news
10. Create the news user:
11. • useradd -g news -d /opt/inn news
12. Remove all existing INN software:
13. • rpm -q -a | grep inn | while read line
    • do
    • rpm -e --nodeps $line
    • done
14. Install your new INN:
15. • make install
16. Update your library resolutions:
17. • ldconfig -v
18. Switch to the news user
19. • su - news
20. Adjust the news user's path
21. • export PATH=/opt/inn/bin:$PATH
22. Edit the relevant config files
23. • edit inn.conf and season to taste (man inn.conf for details)
    • edit newsfeeds and turn on the 'controlchannel'
    • edit cycbuff.conf to add
    • • cycbuff:ONE:/opt/inn/spool/cycbuffs/one:512000
      • cycbuff:TWO:/opt/inn/spool/cycbuffs/two:512000
      • metacycbuff:BIGAREA:ONE,TWO:SEQUENTIAL
24. Create the buffer dir
25. • mkdir /opt/inn/spool/cycbuffs
26. Pre-allocate the buffers
27. • dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/inn/spool/cycbuffs/one bs=1k count=512000
    • dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/inn/spool/cycbuffs/two bs=1k count=512000
28. Edit storage.conf
29. • method cnfs {
    • [tab]newsgroups: *
    • [tab]class: 1
    • [tab]options: BIGAREA
    • }
30. Edit readers.conf (replacing hostname/newsgropus as needed)
31. • auth "localhost" {
    • hosts: "linux-sxs.org, hunley.homeip.net, localhost, 127.0.0.1, stdin"
    • default: "<localhost>"
    • }
    •  
    • access "localhost" {
    • users: "<localhost>"
    • newsgroups: "*"
    • access: RPA
    • }
    •  
    • auth "everyone" {
    • hosts: "*, !localhost, !127.0.0.1, !stdin, !linux-sxs.org, !hunley.homeip.net"
    • default: "<everyone>"
    • }
    •  
    • access "everyone" {
    • users: "<everyone>"
    • read: "sxs.lists.general, sxs.lists.linux-users, sxs.lists.submissions"
    • post: "sxs.lists.general, sxs.lists.linux-users"
    • }
32. Correct the permissions
33. • chmod 755 /opt/inn/spool/cycbuffs/
    • chmod 644 /opt/inn/spool/cycbuffs/*
34. Create the history files
35. • cd ../db
    • touch history
    • makedbz -i
    • mv history.n.pag history.pag
    • chmod 644 *
36. Configure /etc/syslog.conf
37. • news.crit[tab]-/var/log/news.crit
    • news.err[tab]-/var/log/news.err
    • news.notice[tab]-/var/log/news.notice
38. touch /var/log/news.{crit,err,notice}
39. chown news:news /var/log/news.{crit,err,notice}
40. kill -HUP `pidof syslogd`
41. Start it up
42. • cd .. && bin/rc.news
43. Add your newsgroups
44. • bin/ctlinnd newgroup sxs.lists.linux-users

Enjoy your new INN libraries!