# The Linux News HOWTO

## Vince Skahan, `<vince@halcyon.com>`

v1.14, 22 Oct 1994

This document describes the setup and care+feeding of USENET News under Linux. You need to read this if you plan to post or read USENET news either locally on your site or between your site and other sites. You probably do *not* need to read this document if don't plan to provide USENET news as a feature of your system.

## 1. Introduction

#### 1.1 New versions of this document

#### 1.2 Feedback

#### 1.3 Copyright Information

#### 1.4 Standard Disclaimer

#### 1.5 Other sources of information

#### 1.6 Where NOT to look for help

## 2. Hardware Requirements

## 3. Getting USENET News software

## 4. News Transport Software

#### 4.1 Cnews Performance Release

#### 4.2 InterNetNews (INN)

#### 4.3 Other News Transport Agents

## 5. News Readers

#### 5.1 Tin

#### 5.2 Trn/Mthreads

#### 5.3 NN

#### 5.4 Other newsreaders

## 6. Acknowledgements

## 7. Frequently Asked Questions about USENET (in c.o.l.* anyway)

#### 7.1 Why can't I post to moderated groups ?

#### 7.2 Why do I have problems that appear to be permission-related ?

#### 7.3 Why can I post articles locally, but they don't get fed downstream ?

#### 7.4 Why doesn't my binary distribution have the "Performance Release" of C-news?

#### 7.5 Why doesn't my binary distribution have nntp ?

#### 7.6 Why does doexpire (or relaynews or) say "severe space shortage" when there's lots of room ?

#### 7.7 Why does everything look normal, but posting doesn't happen ?

#### 7.8 Can I hook the new news overview (NOV) stuff into trn/tin/nn to replace

#### 7.9 Why can't we have a binary distribution of NNTP ?

#### 7.10 How do I set up NNTP to allow read/post across the network while *not*