Leafnode is an NNTP server designed for small sites to provide a local USENET spool.
Download (HTTP): http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/leafnode/leafnode-1.10.8.rel.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mirrors/sunsite/system/news/transport/leafnode-1.10.8.rel.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1d8d27673780ba49fcb69883c2cabdec
Download size: 385 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.10 SBU
Create the group and user news, if not present:
groupadd -g 36 news &&
useradd -c "Leafnode News Server" -d /var/spool/news -g news \
-u 36 news
Install Leafnode by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc/leafnode \
--with-lockfile=/var/lock/leafnode/fetchnews.lck &&
make
Now, as the root user:
make install
--localstatedir=/var: Change the default spool directory of /usr/var.
--sysconfdir=/etc/leafnode: Leafnode reads its configuration data from a file called config which will be created in /etc/leafnode to avoid any potential conflict with other packages.
make update: Run this command if you are upgrading from a very old version of Leafnode.
/etc/leafnode/config, /etc/nntpserver, /etc/sysconfig/createfiles /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.d/nntp
The /etc/leafnode/config file must be edited to reflect the name of the upstream NNTP provider. Copy the example configuration file to /etc/leafnode/config and save the original for reference:
cp /etc/leafnode/config.example /etc/leafnode/config
Change the
server =
entry to reflect your news provider.
The /etc/nntpserver file must contain 127.0.0.1 to prevent news clients from reading news from the upstream feed. Create this file using the following command:
cat > /etc/nntpserver << "EOF" 127.0.0.1 EOF
The /etc/rc.d/init.d/cleanfs script, part of the LFS bootscript package, will remove the /var/lock/leafnode directory during the system boot sequence. Install the following line in the /etc/sysconfig/createfiles file to re-create the directory:
/var/lock/leafnode dir 2775 news news
Leafnode may be configured to use inetd by adding an entry to the /etc/inetd.conf file with the following command:
echo "nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode" \ >> /etc/inetd.conf
Issue a killall -HUP inetd to reread the changed inetd.conf file.
If you use xinetd, the following command will create the Leafnode file as /etc/xinetd.d/nntp:
cat >> /etc/xinetd.d/nntp << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/xinetd.d/nntp
service nntp
{
flags = NAMEINARGS NOLIBWRAP
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = news
server = /usr/sbin/tcpd
server_args = /usr/sbin/leafnode
instances = 7
per_source = 3
}
# End /etc/xinetd.d/nntp
EOF
Issue a killall -HUP xinetd to reread the changed xinetd.conf file.
Add entries to the root or news user's crontab to run the fetchnews and texpire commands at the desired time intervals.
Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600