1999-01-21
Full changes and diff from previous release
New Features
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New storage.conf file (replaces storage.ctl).
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New (optional) way of handling non-cancel control messages (controlchan) that serializes them and prevents server overload from control message storms.
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Support for actsyncd to fetch active file with ftp; configured by default to use ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.Z if you run actsyncd. Be sure to read the manual page for actsync to configure an actsync.ign file for your site, and test simpleftp if you do not
configurewith wget or ncftp. Also see https://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/README. -
Some options to
configureare now moved to inn.conf (merge-to-groups and pgp-verify, without the hyphen). -
inndf, a portable version of df(1), is supplied.
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New cnfsstat program to show stats of CNFS buffers.
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news2mail and mailpost programs for gatewaying news to mail and mail to news are supplied.
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pullnews program for doing a sucking feed is provided (not meant for large feeds).
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The innshellvars.csh.in script is obsolete (and lives in the obsolete directory, for now).