* Benjamin Esham on Friday, July 09, 2010 at 22:59:03 -0400 > [cross-posted to fink and leafnode lists] > > With a little bit of ingenuity (a.k.a. "blind luck") I managed to get > Leafnode working with Fink on Mac OS X 10.6. I don't have the expertise to > become the official maintainer of the Leafnode package for Fink, but perhaps > my notes can help someone else to create a package. > > The current Leafnode package was developed for OS X 10.4, when xinetd was > being used. The package built without error, but when Fink tried to install > it I got the message > > ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/xinetd.d/leafnode': No such file or directory > > To counter this, I just created the directory (i.e. "sudo mkdir > /etc/xinetd.d"). Fink then installed the package without complaining. > > Instead of using xinetd, we need to use launchd; using the instructions at > [1], I came up with this /Library/LaunchDaemons/de.netzallee.leafnode.plist: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > <plist version="1.0"> > <dict> > <key>Label</key> > <string>de.netzallee.leafnode</string> > <key>ProgramArguments</key> > <array> > <string>/sw/sbin/leafnode</string> > </array> > <key>Sockets</key> > <dict> > <key>Listeners</key> > <dict> > <key>Bonjour</key> > <true/> > <key>SockServiceName</key> > <string>nntp</string> > </dict> > </dict> > <key>UserName</key> > <string>news</string> > <key>inetdCompatibility</key> > <dict> > <key>Wait</key> > <false/> > </dict> > </dict> > </plist> > > Now enable it using > > sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/de.netzallee.leafnode.plist
I also did sudo launchctl start de.netzallee.leafnode (one can basically use any domain name) > and set up Leafnode itself as usual. This includes adding cron jobs to > fetch new articles and prune old ones. I had issues running Leafnode with > the OS X firewall enabled; turning it off did the trick. Finally, I had > issues connecting to the server using slrn; changing NNTPSERVER from > 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1' made it work. Apparently this is a problem with > slrn's support of IPv6 [2]. The latter is not a problem with leafnode 2 - as long you don't use versions later than leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20081229a (some problem with lua support even when turned off). > I hope these instructions are helpful to someone else as well! > > [1] http://www.kutilek.de/technik/news-macosx.en.php > > [2] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18648#comment:7 Thanks. c -- theatre - books - texts - movies Black Trash Productions at home: http://www.blacktrash.org/ Black Trash Productions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blacktrashproductions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
