[NEWBIE]: Sample Configuration Files and Help with NewsFeeds

[Sundaram Divya-QDIVYA1]

Hi all,

I have finally started to work on building my own INN based
news server (our older one was a Netscape Collabra server and
we are hoping to transition to the inn 2.3.2 on RedHat 7.2).

Are there any examples or samples of configuration files 
that I can use to sanity check my work? I would prefer actual
working versions - not ones that should work in theory.
If you prefer to not broadcast your file, please e-mail me a 
copy if possible.

My server seems to be up and running, but it does not seem to
be able to send or receive news posts to other peer servers.
Where in the log files do I go to try and see what the problems
could be?

Also, I had a question on performing backups. We would like to
backup our internal newsgroups ... how can this be done?
Can it be done without shutting down the news server? Or should
I use a Perl Script to extract the news articles individually
and back those up instead?

Finally, is there any way to preserve the article numbering 
from my old server to the new one?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards

	[ PS: I apologize if this is a duplicate message. I sent
	  this request from another machine which has been having
	  some mail delivery issues ... ]

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