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net news on tilde.black |
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April 26th, 2019 |
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What a great day for net news! Not only is cosmic.voyage, |
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tilde.team, and news.tildeverse.org (yourtilde.com) peering, but |
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now tilde.black has been added as well. Tilde Black is my tilde |
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dedicated to discussions, research and expirementation on the |
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topics of privacy, anonymity and and security. It's an openbsd |
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machine, which brought with it a new set of challenges. |
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Here's a quick note on special sauce needed for openbsd: |
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- clone from source as there's no package |
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- make sure to install a bunch of perl dependencies listed in the |
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INSTALL file. It makes heavy use of these during make |
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- use gmake not make if you can |
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- configure --without-openssl is a must. The specific requirements |
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for TLS don't play nice with libssl |
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- once you make install the paths will not be /etc/news and |
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/var/lib/news but rather /usr/local/news/etc and |
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/usr/local/news/db respectively. |
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- innd won't start automatically. You'll need to change to the |
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"news" user and run /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news start. |
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I installed sudo to do it since my news user is non-login. |
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- /usr/local/news/bin is also the path to ctlinnd, which you need |
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to install groups and restart the innd process. |
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Otherwise the setup was pretty much the same as in my previous |
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post. Very cool. |
