This is very much preliminary.

1. Edit the Makefile, set SPOOLDIR and LIBDIR to the appropriate
   directories.

2. Create a "news" user if you don't have one.

3. make installall

4. Edit /usr/local/lib/leafnode/config so the server points to your
   upstream news server
   (generally, your IP provider's).  Make sure $NNTPSERVER or
   /etc/nntpserver points to your own host so clients will talk to
   leafnode rather than try to go to the upstream server.

5. Set up a cron job (as user "news") to run texpire every night or
   maybe every week.  Here is my crontab line, which runs nightly:

0 4 * * * /usr/local/sbin/texpire

   I did "crontab -u news -e" as root to edit the crontab file, and
   added this line.  Substituting "1" for the third "*", thus:

0 4 * * 1 /usr/local/sbin/texpire

   tells cron to run texpire at 4am Monday morning.

6. Make sure fetchnews is run at the appropriate time.  If you have a
   full-time link, run it out of cron (as "news" again), if not, run
   it when your connection to the net is established.  If it is run as
   root, it will change user to "news".

7. Edit /etc/inetd.conf so /usr/local/sbin/leafnode is executed for
   incoming NNTP connections.  HUP inetd.  Here is my inetd.conf line:

nntp    stream  tcp     nowait  news    /usr/local/sbin/leafnode

   This starts leafnode for all connections on the nntp port.

8. Run fetchnews, then read news using an NNTP client (with $NNTPSERVER or
   /etc/nntpserver pointing to your own host), then run fetchnews again.
   The second run of fetchnews should pick up all the groups you read.

Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
Modified by Kazushi (Jam) Marukawa <jam@pobox.com>