Cyrus and Usenet

[kael]

On 05.03.2005 05:58, kael wrote:

> Also, it seems that everybody can post from my server - how to disallow 
> access for posting and more generally to manage posting or reading ?
> 
> I've managed /etc/news with:
> ------------------------------------------
> default                 xfer            no
> ------------------------------------------
> according to 
> http://howtos.linux.com/guides/nag2/x-087-2-nntp.access.shtml but not 
> sure it works and it'd be enough.
> 
> How to manage access (posting/reading) on port 119 ?
> 
> Is /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/nntpd -f enough ? 
> http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/nntpd8.html

This question was not very clear but I understood that the access is 
allowed in imapd.conf by allowanonymouslogin and that the 
reading/posting access is managed with nnptd's option '-f'.

I've managed /etc/cyrus.conf with the following lines ... :

------------------------------------------------------------------------
# UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/lib/imap/sockets
SERVICES {
   ... 

   # these are only necessary if receiving/exporting usenet via NNTP
   nntp          cmd="nntpd -T 0 -f" listen="nntp" prefork=3
   nntps         cmd="nntpd -s" listen="nntps" prefork=1

EVENTS {
   ...
   nntp          cmd="nntpd -T 0 -f" listen="nntp" prefork=3
------------------------------------------------------------------------

... according to man nntpd:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-U uses
	The maximum number of times that the process should be used  for
         new connections before shutting down.  The default is 250.

-T timeout
         The  number of seconds that the process will wait for a new con-
         nection before shutting down.  Note that a  value  of  0  (zero)
         will disable the timeout.  The default is 60.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

But the feed regularly stops to be delivered (after the 250th connection 
?) and I need to re-launch cyrus-imapd.

How to manage /etc/cyrus.conf (or any other tool) so that the feed never 
stops to be delivered ? Should I use the '-U' option ?

Thank you very much for your help.

-- 
kael
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