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Leafnode is a usenet news server for small networks. This How To: is what I did to get it running as a service under SME 7.3 and is based on orginal installation done on SME 7.0rc1. It may or may not be "best practice" with regards how SME likes to do things. If there are errors or better ways please feel free to edit this wiki.

Leafnode is a usenet news server for small networks. This How To: is what I did to get it running as a service under SME 7.3 and is based on orginal installation done on SME 7.0rc1. It may or may not be "best practice" with regards how SME likes to do things. If there are errors or better ways please feel free to edit this wiki.

But anyway to get you going:

== Here we go: ==

'''1)''' Firstly get your Leafnode, I used leafnode-1.11.6-1.i486.rpm the latest in April 2008 and the most recent of the version 1 series I could find. Pop that on to your SME Server somewhere and run:

'''1)''' Firstly get your Leafnode, I used leafnode-1.11.6-1.i486.rpm the latest in April 2008 and the most recent of the version 1 series I could find. Pop that on to your SME Server somewhere and run:

  /service/nntp: up (pid 3064) 764 seconds, normally down

  /service/nntp: up (pid 3064) 764 seconds, normally down

CONGRATULATIONS You now have a working Leafnode on your SME Server and news clients within your network should be able to connect to it for their news feed.

== CONGRATULATIONS ==

You now have a working Leafnode on your SME Server and news clients within your network should be able to connect to it for their news feed.

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