INN Configuration Files
Having completed these general tasks, you can now turn to the really
interesting part of INN: its configuration files. All these files reside in
/etc/news. Some changes to configurations files were
introduced in Version 2, and it is Version 2 that we describe here. If you’re
running an older version, you should find this chapter useful to guide you in
upgrading your configuration. During the next few sections, we will discuss
them one by one, building the Virtual Brewery’s configuration as an example.
If you want to find out more about the features of individual configuration files, you can also consult the manual pages; the INN distribution contains individual manual pages for each of them.
Global Parameters
There are a number of INN parameters that are global in nature; they are relevant to all newsgroups carried.
The inn.conf file
INN’s main configuration file is inn.conf. Among other
things, it determines the name by which your machine is known on Usenet.
Version 2 of INN allows a baffling number of parameters to be configured in
this file. Fortunately, most parameters have default values that are
reasonable for most sites. The inn.conf(5) file details
all of the parameters, and you should read it carefully if you experience any
problems.
A simple example inn.conf might look like:
# Sample inn.conf for the Virtual Brewery server: vlager.vbrew.com domain: vbrew.com fromhost: vbrew.com pathhost: news.vbrew.com organization: The Virtual Brewery mta: /usr/sbin/sendmail ...
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