2022-02-06 Struggling with INN

This is a continuation of my NNCP post.

I am interested in a Usenet feed. – 2022-02-04 Wondering about NNCP

2022-02-04 Wondering about NNCP

I’m following @jgoerzen’s instructions:

@jgoerzen

Usenet, of course, originally ran over UUCP in quite a few cases. Since NNCP is quite similar to UUCP – in fact, you can map UUCP commands to NNCP ones – it is quite possible, and not all that hard, to run Usenet over NNCP. – Usenet over NNCP

Usenet over NNCP

Create new section in /etc/nncp.hjson:

This local copy of rnews wraps the actual rnews:

Create a new /usr/local/bin/nncp-uux:

OK. I think I’m done with the NNCP setup (and I haven’t asked John Goerzen for the news.quux.org connection).

I’m ready to set up a local news server. I think I should try and get that working, first of all.

Installing inn2 fails:

This is a weird problem to have. You need to install it for the inn.conf file to exist, and it fails because the default values don’t work.

Well, now that I have a borked install, I can continue with the instructions, editing /etc/news/inn.conf. Here’s what I’ve changed:

I don’t need to touch the TLS/SSL support section as I will be using NNCP.

Let’s see if I can reinstall inn2, now.

No errors this time. 😃

Let’s try to create a newsgroup:

Uhm, that’s not good. And when I restart inn2, I still get weird output:

And of course newsgroup creation still fails.

Looking at the directory in question and considering @nono’s friendly suggestions, I’m thinking I will try to rebuild those files in /var/lib/news?

@nono

Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be possible. Or maybe it is? The order seems important…

OK, now:

And restart:

I think we’re doing better this time!

Yes we are!

I installed tin! Use y to show all the groups available. And here’s my group!

Use s to subscribe, use y to no longer show the other groups, use w to write a new post for the newsgroup.

Done!

Sadly, the post doesn’t seem to show when I try to visit the group: it keeps telling me “no articles”.

I found some mail for the admin saying:

No .news.daily file; need to run news.daily?

I don’t know. Do I?

I checked /etc/cron.d/inn and ran the first command from there:

I got a very long email…

What’s annoying is that now the command “Web Content” seems to be eating a lot of CPU. How annoying! Ventilator going round and round.

I was wondering… Did I purge the inn config files? Maybe not. I had both /etc/cron.d/inn and /etc/cron.d/inn2 and that’s not right.

Oops, now I get an error!

How anyoing.

Perhaps we’re back, now? Better reboot.

​#Usenet ​#INN ​#Administration ​#NNCP

**2023-05-19**. I think I’m going to uninstall INN2. Instead, based on the good experience of 2023-05-17 Net News I might use sn instead.

2023-05-17 Net News