s-news 0.1.11_2 news =0

Simple news server for hosts with one or two users

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Port Added: 17 Jul 2004 19:11:42
License: not specified in port

S-news is a simple news server for hosts with one or two users.  It is intened
to supply spool and offline news reading for a configured selection of
newsgroups.  S-news does the minimum required to maintain a conventional news
spool and makes use of suck for news transport.

Features
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It provdes a NNTP service and /var/spool/news for local news readers.
It supports any number of incoming news feeds via NNTP either by IHAVE or
suck(1).
Outgoing news feeds are made from locally posted articles and reposted remotly
by rpost(1).
It expires articles by how long they have been in the spool.
It has NNTP access configuration to allow and deny read, post and transfer
access to remote hosts.
It is very light weight and relatively easy to configure.

WWW: http://www.lost.org.uk/snews.html

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Required To Build: devel/gmake
Required Libraries: databases/gdbm
There are no ports dependent upon this port

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/news/s-news/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r s-news

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Configuration Options

     No options to configure

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Master Sites:

http://www.lost.org.uk/

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

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PR:             ports/69551
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S-news is a simple news server for hosts with one or two users.
It is intened to supply spool and offline news reading for a
configured selection of newsgroups.  S-news does the minimum
required to maintain a conventional news spool and makes use
of suck or newsstar for news transport.

PR:             ports/69121
Submitted by:   Andrey Slusar <vasallia@ukr.net>

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