Leafnode is an NNTP server designed for small sites to provide a local USENET spool.
Download (HTTP): http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/leafnode/leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
Download size: 614 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.11 SBU
Create the group and user news, if not present:
groupadd news && useradd -g news news |
Install Leafnode by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var \
--sysconfdir=/etc/news --with-lockfile=/var/lock/fetchnews.lck &&
make &&
make install &&
ldconfig &&
make update |
--localstatedir=/var: Change the default spool directory of /usr/var.
--sysconfdir=/etc/news: leafnode reads its configuration data from a file called config which will be created in /etc/news to avoid any potential conflict with other packages.
make update: Create an initial /etc/news/config.example file, which must be renamed to /etc/news/config.
/etc/leafnode/config, /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/xinetd.conf
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 |
Alternatively, Leafnode may be configured to use xinetd by adding an entry to the /etc/xinetd.conf file with the following command:
cat >> /etc/xinetd.conf << "EOF"
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
}
EOF |
The /etc/news/config file must be edited to reflect the name of the upstream NNTP provider. Copy the example configuration file to /etc/news/config and save the original for reference:
cp /etc/news/config.example /etc/news/config |
Change the
server = |
The NNTPSERVER environment variable must be set to 127.0.0.1 to prevent news clients from reading news from the upstream feed, add the following to /etc/profile or $HOME/.bash_profile:
export NNTPSERVER=127.0.0.1 |
The Leafnode package contains leafnode-version, leafnode, applyfilter, texpire, checkgroups, fetchnews and newsq.
leafnode-version prints the leafnode version.
leafnode is the NNTP server daemon.
applyfilter filters newsgroup articles according to regular expressions.
texpire expires old articles and unread groups.
checkgroups inserts newsgroup titles into the newsgroup database.
fetchnews sends posted articles to and retrieves new articles from an upstream news server.
newsq shows articles waiting to be sent upstream.