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Configuring and Starting the INN Server
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Most of the parameters in the default inn.conf file in the /etc/news
directory do not require changes. You may want to edit one or more of the
parameters shown in Table 2-2.
Table 2-2
Configuration Parameters in /etc/news/inn.conf
Parameter Name
Set This To
mta
The command used to start the mail transfer agent that is
used by innd to transfer messages. The default is to use
sendmail.
organization
The name of your organization in the way you want it
to appear in the Organization: header of all news
articles posted from your system. Users may override this
parameter by defining the ORGANIZATION environment
variable.
ovmethod
The type of overview storage method. (The overview is
an index of news articles in the newsgroup.) The default
method is tradindexed, which is fast for reading news
but slow for storing news items.
pathhost
The name of your news server as you want it to appear in
the Path header of all postings that go through your server.
If pathhost isn’t defined, the fully qualified domain name
of your system is used.
The full pathname of the directory that contains INN binaries and libraries. The default pathnews is set to /usr/
lib/news.
domain
The domain name for your server.
allownewnews
True if you want INN to support the NEWNEWS command
from newsreaders. In the past, this option was set to false
because the NEWNEWS command used to reduce the server’s performance, but now the default is set to true because
modern servers can easily handle the NEWNEWS command.
hiscachesize
The size in kilobytes that you want INN to use for caching
recently received message IDs that are kept in memory to
speed history lookups. This cache is used only for incoming
feeds, and a small cache can hold quite a few history file
entries. The default setting of 0 disables history caching. If
you have more than one incoming feed, you may want to set
this parameter to a value of 256 (for 256KB).
innflags
Any flags you want to pass to the INN server process when
it starts.
Managing Mail and
News Servers
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