But all newsgroups are empty, but the ones I get from this last days
from my peers. There are so much information from so many years is
kind of hard to keep up with the recommended ways or what tools
people are using today in 2023 so my questions are:
- how can I popular groups for lets say 30 days instead of getting new
ones? I am sure I put 15 days on the inn.conf
- are there any recomended web/gemini program/app to allow people to
subscribe?
Hello during last weekend I finally made the step and installed inn2,
seems to be working, have 2 peers so far and pulled the active
newslist from isc ftp etc. But all newsgroups are empty, but the ones
I get from this last days from my peers. There are so much
information from so many years is kind of hard to keep up with the recommended ways or what tools people are using today in 2023 so my
questions are:
- how can I popular groups for lets say 30 days instead of getting new
ones? I am sure I put 15 days on the inn.conf
- is good to run actsyncd? is there a better tool? should I run it
once like I did when I installed the server, or keep running it like
every day or week or month etc?
- are there any recomended web/gemini program/app to allow people to
subscribe? I am using sha256 generated with openssl into a file and
ckpasswd is authentificating from there, but I do not want to
manually create/add each time, I can crate a go/rust interface for
this but checking first so I do not reinvent the whell.
Thanks!
Happy Hacking
- are there any recomended web/gemini program/app to allow people to
subscribe?
There is rocksolid light, which is a web gateway to NNTP.
You can install that on your machine.
https://github.com/novabbs/rocksolid-light
If someone can explain to me how I send you a backlog of 30 days news,
I'd be happy to do it, but it'll require some config on your end so as
not to send those articles on.
Hello during last weekend I finally made the step and installed inn2,
seems to be working
- how can I popular groups for lets say 30 days instead of getting new
ones? I am sure I put 15 days on the inn.conf
- is good to run actsyncd? is there a better tool? should I run it once
like I did when I installed the server, or keep running it like every
day or week or month etc?
Hi rek2,
Hello during last weekend I finally made the step and installed inn2,
seems to be working
Do you happen to have followed the CHECKLIST?
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/checklist.html
In case you found out something unclear or missing in INN documentation,
do not hesitate to tell so as to improve it!
- how can I popular groups for lets say 30 days instead of getting new
ones? I am sure I put 15 days on the inn.conf
You may want one of you peer to re-feed you its spool, or use pullnews
to download old articles yourself (acting like a news reader):
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/pullnews.html
Note that even with that, you'll still end up having empty newsgroups.
Lots of the newsgroups listed in ftp.isc.org haven't seen any discussion since ages.
- is good to run actsyncd? is there a better tool? should I run it once
like I did when I installed the server, or keep running it like every
day or week or month etc?
Yes, the recommendation from the documentation is to run actsyncd out of
cron on a daily basis:
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/actsync.html
It's far easier than to set up control messages, which anyway are still
in use by very few hierarchies.
Is not that is hard, or confusing, is that "is a lot" so someone that
has not setup a nntp server before is going thru the steps and is
wondering a lot of questions, like mine
One thing I was super confused is why I did not see all the articles I
see when I directly log into eternal-september with my account, then I
notice they indeed were comming in, but was getting rejected, I had to
do a lot of research to find out that if you do not have it already
locally it will get rejected(had no idea of this) This opened a new
question and is when I found out about actync but of course there are
similar ways to pull it and was not totally 100% how and which people
are using now a days.. and so on.. so technically the official docs have everything.
the overall, like what does what, and if is needed or optional,
and which are recomended and why, is kind of what got me confused was
missing pieces that goes beyong installing inn and configuring inn.conf
( this was the easier part ).
Also after you start to see it working in action then everything in the official documentation starts to make sense.
I have added actsync and have this time configured better to pull alt.*
and es.* etc that I did not had before because was using the raw example
one on /etc/inn/
And what for the esp.* hierarchy? Its web page is no longer here (http://ennui.org/esp/), no changes since 2004:
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/esp.html
Incidentally, do you know the state of the es.* hierarchy? Is it still
alive and frequented?
The web site of this hierarchy no longer exists
(http://www.corus-es.org/)... No changes since 2006:
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/es.html
And what for the esp.* hierarchy? Its web page is no longer here (http://ennui.org/esp/), no changes since 2004:
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/esp.html
On 2023-07-14, Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:
Incidentally, do you know the state of the es.* hierarchy? Is it still
alive and frequented?
The web site of this hierarchy no longer exists
(http://www.corus-es.org/)... No changes since 2006:
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/es.html
And what for the esp.* hierarchy? Its web page is no longer here
(http://ennui.org/esp/), no changes since 2004:
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/esp.html
Hello no idea, specially because even do I am from Spain I moved to the
US for work in 1997 and was there for 20 years and came back recently so
my involvent with anything hacking,linux,unix,freesoftware etc etc is
all been in the US only lately I got back and started a 2600 meeting for Madrid every first friday of the month! you welcome to come :) gemini://2600.Madrid
https://2600.Madrid
Happy Hacking
Following up on the original topic, I am back in Spain so if I can help
with those es.* esp.* in anyway let me know and I see what I can do.
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