Title:
Administering Usenet news servers : a comprehensive guide to planning, building, and managing Internet and Intranet news services
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Reading, MASS : Addison-Wesley developers Press, 1997
Physical Description:
1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm
ISBN:
9780201419672
General Note:
Accompanies text with the same title (TK5105.875.U83 M33 1997)
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Summary
Summary
Aimed at IT professionals who wish to provide access to Usenet news groups or use a news server as part of a corporate Intranet, this book details the installation, configuration, optimization and ongoing management of a news server on a Unix platform. The CD contains all the server software.
Table of Contents
| Administering Usenet News Servers is an indispensable guide to planning, building and administering a robust UNIX news server |
| The netnews applications INN and DNEWS are thoroughly explained from both an installation and maintenance standpoint |
| This book also contains useful background information to help educate USENET newcomers and to demystify a topic that has, to date, been shrouded in Internet folklore |
| With their years of experience in information transfer, Jim McDermott and John Phillips offer a hands-on approach to administering USENET News Servers that covers |
| Planning you platform, connectivity and budget |
| Constructing your server, and installation and configuration of software |
| Administering your server--including Intranet access and use, security issues, and legalities |
| Regulation of employee postings to newsgroups |
| Using PERL scripts to prevent leakage of Intranet newsgroups to the internet |
| The accompanying CD-ROM includes all application software, utilities, and scripts necessary to implement and INN or DNEWS server and keep it running smoothly |
