Leafnode

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Leafnode - Offline news server

Leafnode is a news server designed for small sites, with a few tens of readers and only a slow link to the net. It uses very little disk space and bandwidth compared to other servers, is easily configured and maintained, and tries very hard to recover automatically from error situations. Each article is stored in a separate file.

There are six programs, three essential and several add-ons. The essentials are leafnode (NNTP server-- talks to news clients and stores readership data); fetchnews (NNTP news-gatherer-- looks at stored readership data and selects groups to pull news from); and texpire, which deletes old and uninteresting news. Add-ons are applyfilter (deletes articles fitting a certain pattern); checkgroups (inserts newsgroup titles into the database; newsq (shows which news are waiting to be transferred to your upstream server).

Obtaining

Web page http://www.leafnode.org/
Source tarball http://www.leafnode.org/
Version 1.10.2 (stable) released on 2004-07-20
Version 2.0.0.alpha20040119a (devel) released on 2004-01-19

Licensed under LGPL.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User README and FAQ included

Support contacts

Help List	<leafnode-list@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de> subject: subscribe
Help News	de.comm.software.newsserver (German language)
Developer List	<leafnode-list@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de> subject: subscribe
Bug List	<leafnode-list@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de> subject: subscribe

Project contacts

Maintainers	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Developers	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Contributors	See the CREDITS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Programs	leafnode, fetchnews, texpire, applyfilter, checkgroups, newsq
Source languages	C
Use requirements	inetd or xinetd or tcpserver
Weak prerequisites	cron or anacron or uoschedule (to run fetchnews and texpire at regular intervals); PCRE (http://www.pcre.org/)
Related programs	Noffle

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-03-15
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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