whm@megaron.UUCP (03/31/86)
Does anybody have the necessary mods to make news work with a remote file system? More specifically, I'd like to have the library files and spooled articles on one machine and then access them from other machines using an rfs, currently IBIS. It seems that the only non-trivial part would be article insertion; reading news should require no mods since it's a passive operation. Note that I'm not looking for a news server. Maybe there are some good arguments for such things, but it seems to me that an rfs should be able to do the same job and require only minor changes to the software. Bill Mitchell whm@arizona.edu {ihnp4,noao,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm
dchen@oliveb.UUCP (Dennis Chen) (04/07/86)
What I did was 1. having the news library directory(/usr/lib/news) and spool directory(/usr/spool/news) of passive systems symbolic linked to an active system. For example: ln -s /b/usr/lib/news /a/usr/lib/news ln -s /b/usr/spool/news /a/usr/spool/news 2. in order to let the news posted simply modify the postnews.c and/or Pnews to have it exec "rsh active-system inews" instead of just "inews" Dennis Chen @ Olivetti ATC {allegra, fortune, glacier, hplabs, idi, ihnp4, olhqma, tolerant}!oliveb!dchen