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PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS VERY OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS

Vnews
Vnews is a powerful news program that provides news services on your Virtual Server. With Vnews, you can create local newsgroups, post to these newsgroups, and reply to posted messages.

NOTE: Vnews does not give access to the USENET newsfeed.

Installation
To install Vnews connect to your Virtual Server via Telnet or SSH, and issue the commands below.

  

FreeBSD
% vinstall vnews

To make it easy for your users, we suggest creating a CNAME record to your DNS information, in order to keep with the normal standard of news.YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME.

Access
All those who wish to access a Vnews newsgroup must have a valid User Account on the Virtual Server. Vnews newsgroups can be accessed using an Internet news reader, such as:

Configure the Internet news reader to access your Virtual Server on port 119.

Management
We provide two ways to manage Vnews newsgroups.

  • vnews-setup
    This is a simple utility that is run from the Unix command-line.
  • Vnews Newsgroup Manager
    This user-friendly interface is accessed from your own web browser.

Customization
Vnews can be customized by making changes to the ~/etc/vnews.conf file. Use an online file editor, like pico, or transfer the file to your PC in order to edit the file. Be sure to download and upload the ~/etc/vnews.conf file in ASCII mode.

The format of the ~/etc/vnews.conf file is as follows.

  • At the beginning of the first line there will be the # symbol. This is called a remark. Placing a # in front of a line, causes Apache not to read the text that follows on that same line.
  • The lines without a # will be read and processed by Apache. Make sure that these lines include valid commands. Usually a remark and explanation of these commands will appear on the following line.

You can enable Vnews logging by modifying the ~/etc/vnews.conf file. Remove the # character from the beginning of the following line.

#VNEWS_LOGFILE   /usr/log/vnews.log

If you want to change the name or location of the log file, change /usr/log/vnews.log to the name or location that you prefer.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS