INN 1.4 for Linux
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by Arjan de Vet devet@adv.win.tue.nl, August 23, 1993.

This is version 0.1.

Version 0.0 was released in June 1993 and contained patches by Dave Gymer
to get INN 1.4 working with UNIX domain sockets. I found out later that
you could also get INN 1.4 running on Linux by not using the UNIX domain
sockets, so INN 1.4 runs out of the box on Linux.


Introduction
============

This is INN 1.4 for Linux. Included are the following files:

INSTALL		Installation instructions
README		This file
bash-patches/	Some patches to get bash 1.12 working with INN (more or
		less). See the INSTALL file.
config.data	config.data file
inn-patches/	A patch for INN 1.4
site/		My configuration files (only the ones which differ from the
		samples)

NOTE: 	config.data and site/* files are the files *I* use. You certainly
	have to edit them for your setup (especially paths and hostnames).

This package attempts to give an example of setting up INN on a Linux
system with one UUCP feed. Because INN runs on Linux without problems
(except those with bash, see later) you should print out and read the INN
documentation and the INN faq (posted every two weeks on news.answers) for
other configurations.


Bourne shell
============

INN depends heavily on a good /bin/sh substitute. I use a beta version of
bash 1.13.

bash 1.12 (as distributed with SLS 1.03) gives the following problems with
INN 1.4:

 - the news.daily script hangs
 - control messages (newgroup/rmgroup etc) are not being handled correctly

See the INSTALL file for more information.

I also did a quick port of NetBSD's ash for Linux which works OK with INN
1.4. You can find it at ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/ports. It may have some
other problems though.


Questions
=========

Questions about INN configuration: news.software.nntp (after reading the
FAQ and documentation). Do not send INN specific questions to the Linux
groups!


	Arjan de Vet
	Department of Mathematics and Computing Science
	Eindhoven University of Technology
	The Netherlands
	devet@adv.win.tue.nl
