Can anybody have a step-by-step tutorial for setting up an NNTP server for...

[Ramesh]

...local Network only ? OS is Ubuntu? I have project to setup an NNTP server for my college local network. I have searched everywhere on Internet but couldn't find any step-by-step tutorial that can help me doing this. I have Ubuntu installed on my PC and I want to setup NNTP server on my PC first. PLEASE help me !!!

 

[Goky]

check the following link and you can get more http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=862620

 

[VenuG1]

sudo apt-get install nntpd will install the nntp daemon. You can edit the configuration file.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man8/nntpd.8.html
" Nntpd is a NNTP server. It accepts commands on its standard input and
responds on its standard output. It MUST invoked by cyrmaster(8) with
those descriptors attached to a remote client connection.

Nntpd reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file
unless specified otherwise by -C. The optional newsprefix option spec-
ifies a prefix to be prepended to newsgroup names to make the corre-
sponding IMAP mailbox names. The optional newspostuser option speci-
fies the special userid to be used when contructing the To: header
address for following up to articles when read via IMAP. The optional
newspeer option specifies the fully qualified hostname of the upstream
news server to which articles are fed. The optional allownewnews
option enables the NNTP NEWNEWS command. NOTE: For servers with a
large volume of articles, the NEWNEWS command can be expensive.

If the directory log/user exists under the directory specified in the
configdirectory configuration option, then nntpd will create protocol
telemetry logs for sessions authenticating as user. The telemetry logs
will be stored in the log/user directory with a filename of the nntpd
process-id."