billd@fps.com (Bill Davids_on) (11/13/89)
I have a question about using nn in a networked environment that I can't fully figure out from the documentation that I've seen. I currently run the nnmaster on celit (a Celerity 1260D, and our main news machine). Nn is also set up on two other 1260's and an FPS Model 500 to run via NNTP with the database in /usr/spool/nn mounted via NFS from celit (read only). It is also set up on a 1260 which serves /usr/local to a network of about 35-40 Sun 3's via nfs. I have set my library directory for nn set to be /usr/spool/nn/nnlib.accel on the 1260's and the Model 500 and /usr/spool/nn/nnlib.sun3 on the suns, thus the library and the database are served via nfs to everyone. I did this because I would like to have a global init file and I don't want to go around changing init files on every machine every time I think of a change I want. Can anyone think of any problems with doing this? The impression I get from the documentation and the way things are built is that the library directory is installed locally. I've tried running nn under these conditions and it seems to work fine but I don't know if there might be some awful snake waiting to bite me lurking in one of the programs. Does nn write any files in the library directory? (Obviously nnmaster and nnadmin do but that doesn't matter for nntp clients). --Bill Davidson (nn novice at large)