Subj : Re: FTN  / Usenet to a new BBS
To   : tenser
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Wed May 13 2020 11:00:19

 t> On 11 May 2020 at 10:33p, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
 t>  
 JM>>  t> Ah, cool!  It would be neat if fsxNet and perhaps SciNet
 JM>>  t> had that set up.
 JM>> 
 JM>> My current plan is to setup a nntp server on CentOS 7, poll news from
 JM>> some source and then feed that to my BBS running on FreeBSD 8.4 (it will
 JM>> not work on
 JM>> any later version for reasons I do not understand) and getting the
 JM>> software needed to poll news from a outside source is a pain in the ass
 JM>> to compile on FreeBSD 8.4. 

 t> What software are you using, is the source code available, and
 t> what precisely do you mean when you write, "it will not work"
 t> on recent versions of FreeBSD?  8.4 is long dead, but perhaps
 t> I can get it to run if the source is lying around somewhere
 t> (preferably github).  Does it compile and fail to run, crash
 t> mysteriously and randomly, or fail to compile?

It fails to compile.  The source code is here: 

http://www.sklaffkom.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/s132.tar.gz

Feel free to have a look.  It would be awesome to get it running under FreeBSD 12 or CentOS 7 or something more modern. 

Thanks!


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