BSD Ports

news/cnews cr.g_21 DragonFly

News server

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD2CLAUSE
Categories
news
Package size
263.0 KiB, 1121.8 KiB installed

Description

Cnews news transport software

LICENSE: BSD

FTP: ftp://ftp.dinoex.org/pub/c-news/

In the other systems

The newest version among them is cr.g, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlynews/cnewscr.g_21 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDnews/cnewscr.g_21 newestnone known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDnews/cnewscr.g_21 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnews/cnewscr.g_21 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install cnews

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/news/cnews && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

you MUST change the configuration of this news setup:
  cd to /var/lib/news and change the following files...
mailname, whoami, organization, mailpaths, sys, readnews.ctl, postdefltgroup
  to suit your local system and news topology.
check that you have vaild aliases in report.ctl,
  so any problem can be reported.

for ease of administration you may add a shell:
pw usermod news -d /var/lib/news -s /bin/csh