Web servers - Figure 21.1 shows the news flow through relaynews.
Figure 21.1 shows the news flow through relaynews. Articles may be relayed to the local site (denoted by ME), to a site named ponderosa via email, and a site named moria, for which batching is enabled. Figure 21.1: News flow through relaynews Installation C News should be available in a prepackaged format for any modern Linux distribution, so installation will be easy. If not, or if you want to install from the original source distribution, then of course you can.126 No matter how you install it, you will need to edit the C News configuration files. Their formats are described in the following list: sys The sys file controls which newsgroups your site receives and forwards. We discuss it in detail in the following section. active Not usually edited by the administration; contains directions for handling articles in each newsgroup the site handles. organization This file should contain your organization’s name, for example, “Virtual Brewery, Inc.” On your home machine, enter “private site,” or anything else you like. Most people will not consider your site properly configured if you haven’t customized this file. newsgroups This file is a list of all newsgroups, with a one-line description of each one’s purpose. These descriptions are frequently used by your newsreader when displaying the list of all groups to which you are subscribed. mailname Your site’s mail name, e.g., vbrew.com. You can obtain the C News source distribution from its home site at ftp.cs.toronto.edu /pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z