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!whmdchen@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