>Number:         4752
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       nntpcache package
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 26 21:50:01 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ty Sarna
>Organization:
	Endicor Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
>Release:        1.3
>Environment:

System: NetBSD lotharon.endicor.com 1.3_ALPHA NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA (LOTHARON) #4: Wed Nov 12 21:44:03 CST 1997 tsarna@lotharon.endicor.com:/bbs/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sun3/compile/LOTHARON sun3

>Description:
	nntpcache (very efficiently) executes on the localhost
	pretending to be an NNRP news reading server.  In fact, what it
	does is pass certain NNTP commands through to real (remote and
	possibly local) news-servers based on various pattern matching
	rules.  nntpcache then takes the output from those servers and
	caches & indexes it in funky ways (much specific case magic goes
	into this).  The next time such information is asked for, or
	other information which can be logically inferred from the
	previously collated information, it is sent directly from the
	cache, without consulting the remote servers. 
>How-To-Repeat:
	N/A
>Fix:
	ftp://ftp.endicor.com/pub/netbsd/nntpcache.tar.gz

	Unpack in pkgsrc/news and add to pkgsrc/news/Makefile.

	This is largely based on the FreeBSD port, but
	I changed the @dirrm of the config dir to an
	@unexec rm -rf, and changed the makefile to install
	the config files as *-dist.  Otherwise, it's you'll
	get warnings from pkg_delete if you've customized
	at all (which is pretty much manditory).
>Audit-Trail:
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