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Vnews
Vnews is a powerful news program that provides news services on your Virtual Server.
With Vnews, you can create local newsgroups, post to these newsgroups, and reply to
posted messages.
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NOTE:
Vnews does not give access to the USENET newsfeed.
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Installation
To install Vnews connect to your Virtual Server via
Telnet or SSH,
and issue the commands below.
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FreeBSD
% vinstall vnews
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BSD/OS
unavailable
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NOTE: If your Virtual Server was ordered after Nov 22, 1999, you are likely
running FreeBSD. To find out which O/S your Virtual Server is running, use the
uname command:
% uname
If your Virtual Server is not already running FreeBSD,
Upgrade to a New FreeBSD Virtual Server
today!
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To make it easy for your users, we suggest creating a CNAME record to your DNS
information, in order to keep with the normal standard of news.YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME.
Access
All those who wish to access a Vnews newsgroup must have a valid
User Account on the
Virtual Server.
Vnews newsgroups can be accessed using an Internet news reader, such as:
Configure the Internet news reader to access your Virtual Server on port 119.
Management
We provide two ways to manage Vnews newsgroups.
Customization
Vnews can be customized by making changes to the ~/etc/vnews.conf file.
Use an online file editor, like pico, or transfer the file to your PC in order to edit the file. Be sure to download and upload the ~/etc/vnews.conf file in ASCII mode.
The format of the ~/etc/vnews.conf file is as follows.
- At the beginning of the first line there will be the
# symbol. This is called a
remark.
Placing a # in front of a line, causes Apache not to read the
text that follows on that same line.
- The lines without a
# will be read and processed by Apache. Make sure that these lines include valid commands. Usually a remark and explanation of these commands
will appear on the following line.
You can enable Vnews logging by modifying the ~/etc/vnews.conf file. Remove
the # character from the beginning of the following line.
#VNEWS_LOGFILE /usr/log/vnews.log
If you want to change the name or location
of the log file, change /usr/log/vnews.log to the name or
location that you prefer.
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