Re: [Noffle-users] Standalone server?

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 18-Sep-2003 Ivan Voras wrote:
> Can noffle be used as an standalone news server, without external feeds?

You should be able to.

> How?

I assume your primary problem is that Noffle considers not having an upstream
server defined in noffle.conf to be a fatal error(*).

So put one in. I think you can put in any old name. The point is that it's only
if you issue 'noffle --query' or 'noffle --fetch' that Noffle tries to access
the upstream server (in normal use - 'online mode' will cause other server
accesses).

So, if you don't issue 'noffle --query groups' or 'noffle --fetch' you will be
fine. Use 'noffle --create' to create local groups, and post away. 'noffle
--modify' can be used to set a group description and change posting status.

You will still want to run 'noffle --expire' regularly if you want it to expire
articles.

Please tell us if you have problems.

(*) Maybe we should change that error into a warning. Comments?

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