burati@ibis.CS.ULowell.Edu@apollo.UUCP (02/25/87)
Recently (a couple of days ago), I got rrn working on our apollo
net, reading the news across ethernet from the spool machine
(ulowell itself). Besides a couple of changes that needed to
be made to the 'Config' file (ie: getting around the part that
tries to do 'ar -t /usr/lib/libc > libc.list' and replacing
libc.list with a file I made by hand (edited from one on another
machine), everything seemed to go ok. Everything except for
inews that is.
The nntp software (I got it from the PD part of our 4.3BSD source)
includes remote news reading/posting software to be used over
ethernet between unix machines. Well, the reading (rrn) part
works fine (a little slower than rn, but still usable), but
I can't get inews to work. The inews that comes with it is not
your typical inews, but a program designed to take an article
and feed it over ethernet to inews on the remote machine
(via nntpd daemon running on the remote machine). The local
inews sends the article over the net, receives the status code
ARTICLE RECEIVED (or something like that) and exits successfully.
But, the article never shows uup on the remote machine (ulowell).
(Note: I know it actually sent the article and got the status
code, because I stepped through inews in the debugger).
Has anybody had success getting the remote inews to work, or had
similar problems with the regular inews (distributed with 2.10/2.11)
that could help me? For now, I can feed the articles I'm posting
to %rsh ulowell 'inews -h' < $tmpart
but the article will wind up with the wrong 'From:' address on it.
Thanks for any help...
Michael Burati
burati@ibis.CS.ULowell.Edu
burati@ulowell.UUCP (for sites running out of date mail sw)
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