How To Install cleanfeed on Fedora 34

cleanfeed is A spam filter for Usenet news servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cleanfeed on Fedora 34.

What is cleanfeed

Cleanfeed is an automatic spam filter for Usenet news servers and routers (INN, Cyclone, Typhoon, Breeze and NNTPRelay). Cleanfeed looks for duplicated messages, repeated patterns, and known spamming sites and domains. It can be configured to block binary posts to non-binary newsgroups, to cancel already-rejected articles, and to reject some spamming from local users. Install the cleanfeed package if you need a spam filter for a Usenet news server.

We can use yum or dnf to install cleanfeed on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cleanfeed.

Install cleanfeed on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cleanfeed using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cleanfeed

Install cleanfeed on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cleanfeed using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cleanfeed

How To Uninstall cleanfeed on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the cleanfeed package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cleanfeed

cleanfeed Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/news/bad_adult_paths
/etc/news/bad_cancel_paths
/etc/news/bad_hosts
/etc/news/bad_paths
/etc/news/cleanfeed.local
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/README
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/cleanfeed
/usr/share/licenses/cleanfeed/LICENSE
/usr/share/news/bin/filter
/usr/share/news/bin/filter/filter_innd.pl

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cleanfeed on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.