This HOWTO is a by-product of many years of experience setting up and
managing Usenet news servers. We have learned a lot from those who have
trod the path ahead of us. Some of them include the team of the ERNET
Project (Educational and Research Network), which brought the Internet
technology to India's academic institutions in the early
nineties. We specially remember what we have learned from the
SIGSys Group of the Department of Computer Science
of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. We have also benefited
enormously from the guidance we received from the Networking Group at
the NCST (National Centre for Software Technology) in Mumbai, specially
from Geetanjali Sampemane. On a wider scale, our learning along the path of systems and
networks started with Unix, without which our appreciation of computer
systems would have remained very fragmented and superficial. Our insight
into Unix came from our ``Village Elders'' in the Department of Computer
Science of the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) at Mumbai, specially
from ``Hattu,'' ``Sathe,'' and ``Sapre,'' none of whom are with the IIT
today, and from Professor D. B. Phatak and others, many of whom, luckily
are still with the Institute. Coming to Starcom, all the members of Starcom Software who
have worked on various problems with networking, Linux, and Usenet news
installations have helped the authors in understanding what works and
what doesn't. Without their work, this HOWTO would have been a dry text
book. Hema Kariyappa co-authored the first couple of versions of this
HOWTO, starting with v2.0. Your comments and contributions are invited. We cannot possibly
write all sections of this HOWTO based on our knowledge alone. Please
contribute all you can, starting with minor corrections and bug fixes
and going on to entire sections and chapters. Your contributions will be
acknowledged in the HOWTO. Copyright (c) 2002 Starcom Software Private Limited,
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products and solutions using Linux and Web technology since 1996. Our
entire office runs on Linux, and we have built mission-critical
solutions for some of the top corporate entities in India and abroad.
Our client list includes arguably the world's largest securities
depository (The National Securities Depository Limited, India,
www.nsdl.com), one of the world's top five stock
exchanges in terms of trading volumes (The National Stock Exchange of
India Limited, www.nseindia.com), and one of India's
premier financial institutions listed on the NYSE. In all these cases, we
have introduced them to Linux, and in many cases, we have built them their
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