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Added support for POSTing to the server, added readme and todo, added support for upstream synchronization using POST
author Ivo Smits <Ivo@UCIS.nl>
date Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:29:41 +0200
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1 To use:
2 Set up some database (MySQL is recommended, but others should work too), with a schema as described in database.mysql
3 Rename/copy config.php.example to config.php and edit it according to your database settings
4 Add other news servers to the peers table in the database (address is in the format tcp://hostname:119, post is either 0 or 1 to try to post to this server)
5 Add newsgroups to the newsgroups table in the database
6 Add peer-group relations to the peergroups table in the database (peer is the id number from the peers table, group is the id number from the groups table)
7 Setup (x)inetd (or socat or netcat) to serve the server.php script on TCP port 119
8 Run the fetchnews.php script to synchronize with your peers
9 Install the fetchnews.php script in crontab to automatically synchronize with your peers