Leafnode is an NNTP server designed for small sites to provide a local USENET spool.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/leafnode/leafnode-1.11.5.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mirrors/sunsite/system/news/transport/leafnode-1.11.5.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 88552c5cc91cb27146c8906b2d33289d
Download size: 428 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/leafnode
As the root user, 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
To test the results, issue: make check.
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 2007-04-04 21:42:53 +0200