3. Getting Started

First and foremost, here is some recommended reading:

• INND FAQ (found on the redhat CDROM, and should be installed in /usr/doc/inn-1.4unoff3-2
• README.RHCL (found in the same directory)
• Unix System Administration Handbook, by Nemeth, ie. ``the red book''
• news.software.nntp Usenet newsgroup. Full of newbie and esoteric questions. You aren't as dumb as you think you are.

For starters. We'll assume you just installed your RHL distribution, and now want to run INN. If you started INN as root, you have totally screwed up the permissions for all the files. You should probably uninstall and re-install the INN package. DO NOT run the INN BINARIES AS ROOT!! I messed up that way, and I think that is how others may be getting into trouble. When editing files, and copying and renaming them, please do this as the news user. The easiest way to do this is to log in as root, and type the command su news.