Installation command explanations
groupadd news
useradd -g news news :
Create the group and user news, if not present. Errors
resulting from an already existing user or group news may be
ignored.
--prefix=/usr :
Change the default installation directory of /usr/local.
--sysconfdir=/etc/news :
leafnode reads it's configuration data from an file called
config, this with be created in
/etc/news to avoid any potential conflict with
other packages.
make update :
Create an initial /etc/news/config.example file,
which must be renamed to /etc/news/config.