sonews README
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sonews is an Usenet News Server written in Java. It uses a relation database as
backend, currently supported is MySQL, PostgreSQL and HSQLDB.

Prerequisites:
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* Java 6 Runtime or higher
* MySQL v5 or PostgreSQL v8 or higher
* JDBC driver for your database system


Installation:
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* Create a database in your DBMS, e.g. named like 'sonews'
* Create the necessary table structure using the helpers/*.sql file
  (you may use the experimental helper application:
   java -cp sonews.jar:<jdbcdriver.jar> DatabaseSetup )
* Customize the settings within the sonews.conf file or add config values to
  the 'config' table.
* Invoke 'bin/sonews.sh start' to start the daemon

Bugs and other Issues:
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Please mail them to mail(at)sonews.org or better issue them
into the bugtracker at https://bitbucket.org/cli/sonews/ .