As a prerequisite to using this script, you're going to want to
get the 'newslib' library, currently available at:
http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/software/newslib
(A version of this is also included in this package.)
Install this library. If you install it system-wide, that's all
you have to do; otherwise, you'll have to note where you installed the
libraries in the script.
Now, you'll want to update the variables in newsproxy.pl to
reflect your setup. Specifically, you'll want to tell it what servers to
connect to (@CLIENTS) and where you can connect from (@MACHINES).
RUNNING INSTRUCTIONS
This is how I'm currently running it:
hatchetman ~> sudo newsproxy -p 119 &
hatchetman ~> nn
[time passes]
hatchetman ~> fg
[Ctrl-C]
hatchetman ~>
OTHER NOTES
If you want to authenticate with any news servers, make a file
~/.nntpauth that contains lines like the following:
news-server.example.com.invalid username password
news-server2.example.com.invalid username2 password2
...and so forth. This is documented with News::NNTPAuth.
Anyway, enjoy.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org)
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