4 sonews is an Usenet News Server written in Java. It uses a relation database as
5 backend, currently supported is MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQLDB.
10 * Java 6 Runtime or higher
11 * MySQL v5 or PostgreSQL v8 or higher
12 * JDBC driver for your database system
18 * Create a database in your DBMS, e.g. named like 'sonews'
19 * Create the necessary table structure using the helpers/*.sql file
20 (you may use the experimental helper application:
21 java -cp sonews.jar:<jdbcdriver.jar> DatabaseSetup )
22 * Customize the settings within the sonews.conf file or add config values to
24 * Invoke 'bin/sonews.sh start' to start the daemon
26 Bugs and other Issues:
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29 Please mail them to mail(at)sonews.org or better issue them
30 into the bugtracker at https://bitbucket.org/cli/sonews/ .