Re: [leafnode-list] Running two news-servers on one machine (newbie-ish)

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ben Holness" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am looking into a way of running two news servers (on different ports) at
> the same time on one Linux machine.

No problem. Tell leafnode in inetd or tcpserver which port you want it
to listen on (you may need to modify /etc/services in the inetd case),
and if you want to run two leafnode versions, you'll have to use
distinct spooldir and libdir options to --configure so to separate the
configurations and news spools from each other. However, be aware that
both will share the "news" server so if someone manages to break into
your leafnode somehow (no such things have been reported, but the
crucial bug might still sleep in the code), he will be able to read BOTH
spools.

-- 
Matthias Andree

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."         Benjamin Franklin

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