On 17/06/2019 18.29, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Gertjan wrote:
Maybe we should move this from private to heroes@o.o . Forums admins are interested, a forums user offered to help out. My own tech knowledge/ experience in this area is rusted/outdated/90%forgotten.
If you know about running inn, that's not outdated - old, but not outdated :-)
To anyone who is listening in here - we are working on setting up a news server to replace the one in Provo which is being decommissioned.
Carlos has volunteered to look at setting up inn, for now we are waiting to get him some access and a VM, but he will most likely play around with a private setup anyway.
I had assumed the Provo setup was also running inn, and that we would be able to glean the setup - it turns out that is not the case.
I was afraid of that, but wasn't sure.
To be on the safe side, let me quickly explain - I am in no way running this "project", I'm just another heroes member. I heard that we have an active community using nntp for the forums, and I thought it would be a pity to cut them off. I am however responsible for cajoling Carlos into volunteering :-) and I happen to also have my own news server running, set up 13-14 years ago.
Hi What I'm doing now is reading docs on inn, and installing it on a virtual machine at home (install done). If you know of an "inn for dummies" text, please speak up ;-) Now I'm wondering how to try download the existing message database into this one. I have already downloaded them into another machine using leafnode instead, which is familiar to me, so there is at least a copy of the opensuse.* messages (there are several other hierarchies: attachmate.*, microfocus.*, netiq.*, novell.*, and suse.* I assume the only one of interest to us is opensuse.org.* -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)