Re: 1.1.5 on Mac OS X

* Andre Berger <[email protected]>, 2004-03-16 19:18 +0100:
> * Jim Hague <[email protected]>, 2004-03-16 13:01 +0100:
> > On 16-Mar-2004 Andre Berger wrote:

Jim, before anything else, let me thank you very much for your
kindness, for your lightning-fast replies, and for all your work!!

Noffle does work on Mac OS X 10.3.3 (Panther) with Fink. What I did
was get "fink install gdbm3" from unstable, since Fink stable only
provides libgdbm 1.8.0, unstable 1.8.3.

Then I downloaded and unpacked the noffle 1.1.5 sources. (We talked
about the patches, so I guess you'll have them ready when the next
person needs these instructions.) In the noffle-1.1.5 directory, I
ran

sudo -s # get a root shell

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-auth=yes --with-usersfile=/usr/local/etc/news/noffle.users --with-configfile=/usr/local/etc/news/noffle.conf --with-gdbm-include=/sw/include --with-gdbm-libdir=/sw/lib

  (Then I edited the Makefile, s.a.)

make && make all && make install


Then I set up a file /etc/xinetd.d/nntp with contents:

service nntp
{
	disable = no
	socket_type	= stream
	wait		= no
	user		= news
	server	= /usr/local/bin/noffle 
	server_args = -r
	groups		= yes
	flags		= REUSE IPv6
}

which refers to the standard entry in /etc/services : 

nntp            119/udp     # Network News Transfer Protocol
nntp            119/tcp     # Network News Transfer Protocol


After a reboot, noffle was waiting on port 119. 

Heureka!

-Andre


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