joe@fluke.UUCP (Joe Kelsey) (01/02/84)
Within the next month or so, I plan to start designing and implementing a
remote file access server for sharing the news database among machines
connected to a TCP/IP LAN. I am really tired of duplicating the database on
each and every machine in our network, so I guess I'm just going to bite the
bullet and change news! What I plan to do is to specify one machine as the
database machine (normally also the outside interface machine, the one that
runs UUCP). News will run relatively undisturbed on this machine, except
for the presence of a server daemon for the other machines. The other
machines will access the news database via the news server. This means
addition of flags to the sys file, and probably major changes to other
modules.
If anyone is interested in contributing to this project, I would really
appreciate any help. I expect to complete the design by the end of the
month and the implementation should proceed soon after. Please respond by
mail if you are interested in helping out or whatever.
/Joe Kelsey
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