At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:50:07 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 4/27/2011 9:24 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:56:44 -0400 CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org wrote:
I use inn to make internal company announcements and discussions available to remote offices. I note inn is removed form RHEL 6. What replaces inn?
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_...
Will inn be available from elsewhere? Will I have to compile it?
Should I modify my scripts to create and install html files for a web server? That would make article deletion, archiving, and maintenance more difficult than it is with the inn nntp server.
Is there some "forum" type package that would be better than the inn system?
You could install one of several (open source) CMS packages, that work with a database (MySQL) and a Webserver (Apache) and are generally coded in PHP. WordPress is a fairly simple system that might give you what you want. Not exactly a "forum", but does allow people to 'comment' on blog entries (posts), which might be all you need. It does allow for the site adminstrator to grant authoring privs to other users. And there might be plugins that implement full-fledged forums (I haven't looked). Joomla! is a more comprehensive CMS system and it does have extensions that implement forums.
A wiki works well for this sort of thing too, especially if it has the ability to email notifications about updates. Inn/news does have an advantage in scaling and resource consumption, but the real issue here is retraining the users, especially if they are currently using a combo news/email client that automatically sees new messages posted to a group. I've always wondered if there is a free equivalent of the software running http://news.lugnet.com/ which seems to be simultaneously a web forum, a newsgroup, and an email list, depending on how you access it.
I think Mailman might have a news=>mailing list 'gateway' function and I think there are news=>web forum gateway packages 'out there'. It is possible http://news.lugnet.com/ is just a nntp server (eg inn) with some 'addon' packages (eg Mailman).