Configuring Innd

For our example innd has it's configuration files in /opt/news/etc. All of its files should be owned and readable by the news user. The ones that need changing are listed below:

newsfeeds

For demon this should look like the following:
```
 
ME:*,!junk,!to,!test::
demon::Tf,Wnm:demon
crosspost:*:Tc,Ap,WR:/opt/news/bin/crosspost
overview!:*:Tc,WO,S30000:/opt/news/bin/overchan
```
If you have local newsgroups that you don't want to, or can't propogate to Demon then you can add them on the demon newsfeeds line. Thus:
demon:!local.*:Tf,Wnm:demon

would prevent articles posted in the local hierarchy being propogated.
incoming.conf

This is for hosts that feed you news. This is probably just the hostname of the computer you run innd on. Comment everything out and just have the following in the file:
```
 
peer ME {
  hostname:         localhost
}

peer sample {
  hostname:     sample.demon.co.uk        
}
```
where you obviously replace sample with your demon hostname.
nnrp.access

This lists hosts that can read and post by hostname or ip address. If it's just the machine that innd's on that should do this then the following is fine:
```
 
*:: -no- : -no- :!*
stdin:Read Post:::*
localhost:Read Post:::*
```
Other hosts can be added in the same format as localhost. You can also specify usernames, passwords and restrict access to certain groups by using the last three fields. For instance:
*.local.net:Read Post:user:pass:!alt.sex.*

allows access to any computer in the domain local.net which logs in with username user and password pass to any newsgroup except those in the alt.sex hierarchy.
nntpsend.ctl

This controls who articles are sent to. With the newsfeeds entry above the following will upload all posted articles to Demon's news server
```
 
demon:news.demon.co.uk::
```
To actually send the articles you'll need to invoke nntpsend, more on that later.

inn.conf

A lot of this can be ignored and left as the default. The ones you should set are as follows

 
server:                 sample.demon.co.uk
pathhost:               sample.demon.co.uk
fromhost:               sample.demon.co.uk
doinnwatch:             false   
innflags:               -L

You may want to put something witty in the organisation: line as well

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