Install requirements for building WendzelNNTPd v2.0.3 from source on CentOS7

This is about the NNTP server from Steffen Wendzel.

I used this path: /usr/lib64/WendzelNNTPd-OSE and the documentation says to use this path: /var/lib64/WendzelNNTPd-OSE.

Download the archive from github and decompress it to a path of your choice -- or -- even easier -- use a subversion client to get the files, like this:

# svn checkout https://github.com/cdpxe/WendzelNNTPd/tags/v2.0.7/WendzelNNTPd-OSE/

You will need some packages before you can build from the source code. The following command should give you ALL required packages for the Wendzel NNTP daemon on CentOS 7.

# sudo yum install make gcc subversion bison flex sqlite-devel

If you have any problems, use this command to determine which packages you are misisng:

# ./configure

If you just want to use SQLite3

Run this line from the WendzelNNTPd-OSE directory to avoid requirements for MySQL client libraries and MySQL client development tools:

# MYSQL=NO ./configure

Then run

# make
# ls bin -l

That's it!!

Recap: Starting, Auto-start after reboot

from the manual:
http://www.wendzel.de/dr.org/files/Projects/wendzelnntpd/docs_2.0/docs.pdf

# /usr/local/sbin/wendzelnntpd -d

or to send to background

# /usr/local/sbin/wendzelnntpd -d &

NB: Wendzelnntpd does NOT support chkconfig as of 23.May.2015.

Start, Stop, Restart...

Regarding the start-stop-parameter: There is one way to do this. Thescript scripts/startup/init.d_script allows you to stop, start, and restart the service. Under Ubuntu you can install it via:

sudo cp scripts/startup/init.d_script /etc/init.d/wendzelnntpd

And then use it via:

/etc/init.d/wendzelnntpd [start | stop | restart]