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‎Installing Sucknews

Wikislax: Created page with "{{RightTOC}} == What is Sucknews ? == Sucknews affords getting the newsfeeds over a regular NNTP connection with your Internet Service Provider. This comes in handy when you..."

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== What is Sucknews ? ==

Sucknews affords getting the newsfeeds over a regular NNTP connection with your Internet Service Provider. This comes in handy when you are not a big company and have no agreements with peer Newsgroup servers.

== Installing Sucknews ==

There was a time when sucknews was available from [http://www.sucknews.org sucknews.org] but this site has disappeared and there seems to be no obvious source of sucknews update software so we'll stick with an old [{{SERVER}}/slax/download/suck-4.3.2.tar.gz version] (perfectly satisfactory anyway). Untar and install as below :

# tar -C /usr/local -xvf suck-x.y.z.tar.gz
# cd /usr/local
# chown -R root:root suck-x.y.z.tar.gz
# cd suck-x.y.z.tar.gz
# ./configure --help | less
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/news --libdir=/usr/local/news/lib64 --mandir=/usr/local/man \
--with-inn-lib=/usr/local/news/lib --with-inn-include=/usr/local/news/include --with-perl-exe=/usr/bin
# make
# make install
# make clean
# cd /usr/local/news/bin
# chown <nowiki>news:news</nowiki> lmove rpost suck testhost

== Running Sucknews ==

The below script affords posting the local messages and get entering messages on your Internet Service Provider site :

# su news
$ cd /usr/local/news/bin
$ '''vi suck.sh'''
'''i'''
#!/bin/sh

NNTP_SERVER=news.free.fr
NEWS_PATH=/usr/local/news
BIN_PATH=/usr/local/news/bin
SUCK_PATH=/usr/local/news/bin
BATCH_PATH=/usr/local/news/spool/outgoing/free
FILTER_PATH=$SUCK_PATH/filter.sh

cd $SUCK_PATH

######################################################
# posting outgoing articles (localhost->NNTP_SERVER) #
######################################################

echo "Sending articles..."
if test -s $BATCH_PATH
then
$BIN_PATH/rpost $NNTP_SERVER -b $BATCH_PATH \
-f $FILTER_PATH \$\$o=/tmp/filtered \$\$i /tmp/filtered
else
echo "No articles to post..."
fi

######################################################
# getting incoming articles (NNTP_SERVER->localhost) #
######################################################

echo Getting articles...
if [ -e /tmp/newposts ]; then
rm /tmp/newposts
fi
$BIN_PATH/suck $NNTP_SERVER -AL $NEWS_PATH/db/active -i 0 -n -H -K -br /tmp/newposts -c
if [ -e /tmp/newposts ]; then
$BIN_PATH/rnews /tmp/newposts
fi
cat /dev/null > $BATCH_PATH
'''<esc>'''
''':x'''
$ chmod u+x suck.sh
$ ./suck.sh
Sending articles...
No articles to post...
Getting articles...
Attempting to connect to news.free.fr
Using Port 119
Official host name: news.free.fr
Address: 212.27.60.38
Address: 212.27.60.39
Address: 212.27.60.37
Address: 212.27.60.40
Connected to news.free.fr
200 news-4.free.fr (4-2) NNRP Service Ready - newsmaster@proxad.net (posting ok)
No sucknewsrc to read, creating
Adding new groups from local active file to sucknewsrc
New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: control
control - 1 articles 3983-3983
New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: control.cancel
control.cancel - 349 articles 94271852-94272200
New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: control.checkgroups
control.checkgroups - 4 articles 5228-5231
New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: control.newgroup
control.newgroup - 1 articles 73186-73186
New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: control.rmgroup
control.rmgroup - 1 articles 30996-30996
New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: junk
junk - 1 articles 38322-38322
New Group - adding to sucknewsrc: alt.os.linux.slackware
alt.os.linux.slackware - 1907 articles 231211-233117
Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.72 seconds
2227 Articles to download
Deduping Elapsed Time = 0 mins 0.00 seconds
Deduped, 2227 items remaining, 0 dupes removed.
Total articles to download: 2227
5290946 Bytes received in 1 mins 20.79 secs, BPS = 65489.2
Closed connection to news.free.fr
Building RNews Batch File(s)
Cleaning up after myself
news@inner:/usr/local/news/bin$
<ctrl>d
#

In the first part, messages are posted to the provider using '''rpost'''. The list of articles is obtained from the information contained in newsfeed file '''/usr/local/news/spool/outgoing/free'''. The '''-f''' option affords applying a filter to the messages so as to expurge certain headers :

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/news/bin/sm -R $1 | sed -e "/^X-Trace/d" -e "/^NNTP-Posting-Host/d" \
-e "/^Xref/d" -e "/^X-Complaints-To/d" -e "/^NNTP-Posting-Date/d" > $2

In the second part, suck gets the messages from your Internet Service Provider. The '''-AL''' option affords using the list of groups defined. '''-i 0''' indicates that there is no limit on the number of messages to get, '''-n''' is for the mode « messages identified by their numbers by the provider » '''-c''' is to update the numbers after the end of the operation, '''-br''' defines the output file, '''-H''' and '''-K''' afford skipping the historic and killfile options. The file written is afterwards used by '''rnews'''. The articles are then available.

== Automating Sucknews ==

Automate Sucknews execution using '''crontab'''. In the example below, suck.sh is executed at 13:00 daily :

# su news
$ crontab -e
# MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND
00 13 * * * /usr/local/news/bin/suck.sh
30 13 * * * /usr/local/news/bin/news.daily expireover lowmark

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 == Installing Sucknews ==
-There was a time when sucknews was available from [http://www.sucknews.org sucknews.org] but this site has disappeared and there seems to be no obvious source of sucknews update software so we'll stick with an old [{{SERVER}}/slax/download/suck-4.3.2.tar.gz version] (perfectly satisfactory anyway). Untar and install as below :
+There was a time when sucknews was available from [http://www.sucknews.org sucknews.org] but this site has disappeared and there seems to be no obvious source of sucknews update software so we'll stick with an old [{{SERVER}}/wikislax/download/suck-4.3.2.tar.gz version] (perfectly satisfactory anyway). Untar and install as below :
   # tar -C /usr/local -xvf suck-x.y.z.tar.gz

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