Package: inn2 (2.7.3~20241006-1 and others)

[ Source: inn2  ]

'InterNetNews' news server

This package provides INN 2.x, which is a very complex news server daemon useful for big sites. The 'inn' package still exists for smaller sites which do not need the complexity of INN 2.x.

The news transport is the part of the system that stores the articles and the lists of which groups are available and so on, and provides those articles on request to users. It receives news (either posted locally or from a newsfeed site), files it, and passes it on to any downstream sites. Each article is kept for a period of time and then deleted (this is known as 'expiry').

By default Debian's INN will install in a fairly simple 'local-only' configuration.

In order to make use of the services provided by INN you'll have to use a user-level newsreader program such as pan. The newsreader is the program that fetches articles from the server and shows them to the user, remembering which the user has seen so that they don't get shown again. It also provides the posting interface for the user.

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: Daemon, Networking: Server, Network Protocol: protocol::nntp, role::program

Other Packages Related to inn2

• dep: inn2-inews (= 2.7.3~20241006-1+b1)

  NNTP client news injector, from InterNetNews (INN)

• dep: cron

  process scheduling daemon

  or cron-daemon

  virtual package provided by bcron, cron, cronie, systemd-cron

• dep: default-mta

  virtual package provided by exim4-daemon-light

  or mail-transport-agent

  virtual package provided by courier-mta, dma, esmtp-run, exim4-daemon-heavy, exim4-daemon-light, msmtp-mta, nullmailer, opensmtpd, postfix, sendmail-bin, ssmtp

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.38)

  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

• dep: libcanlock3 (>= 3.3.0)

  library for creating and verifying Usenet cancel locks

• dep: libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0)

  libcrypt shared library

• dep: libdb5.3t64

  Berkeley v5.3 Database Libraries [runtime]

• dep: libencode-perl

  module providing interfaces between Perl's strings and the system

• dep: libmime-tools-perl

  Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant messages

• dep: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)

  Pluggable Authentication Modules library

• dep: libperl5.40 (>= 5.40.0)

  shared Perl library

• dep: libpython3.12t64 (>= 3.12.1)

  Shared Python runtime library (version 3.12)

• dep: libsasl2-2 (>= 2.1.28+dfsg1)

  Cyrus SASL - authentication abstraction library

• dep: libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.20.0)

  SQLite 3 shared library

• dep: libssl3t64 (>= 3.0.0)

  Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - shared libraries

• dep: libsystemd0

  systemd utility library

• dep: perl

  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

• dep: perlapi-5.40.0

  virtual package provided by perl-base

• dep: procps

  /proc file system utilities

• dep: time

  GNU time program for measuring CPU resource usage

• dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

  compression library - runtime

• sug: gnupg1

  GNU privacy guard - a PGP implementation (deprecated "classic" version)

• sug: libgd-perl

  Perl module wrapper for libgd

• sug: libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2)

  MIT Kerberos runtime libraries

• sug: wget

  retrieves files from the web

Download inn2

Download for all available architectures

Architecture	Version	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
s390x	2.7.3~20241006-1+b1	1,193.7 kB	3,601.0 kB	[list of files]