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