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/ .