andrew@me.brunel.ac.uk.UUCP (Andrew Findlay) (12/11/87)
In article <5822@ncoast.UUCP> joe@hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger) writes: > > Here is a shell I put together a few months ago to allow me to post >news from my Sun. I don't really have news at all on my machine. I just managed >to find a remote site I can nfs the news stuff from, and installed "rn" to read it >with. This shell version of "inews" is short, sweet, and works fine. [70 line shell script removed] We have a similar situation here. One machine holds news, but many mount that filesystem using NFS. Here is our 'inews', as used on all except the master machine: #!/bin/sh #remote inews /usr/ucb/rsh Pluto /usr/lib/news/inews $* The master machine is called Pluto. It is a VAX, though the client machines are a mixture of Sun, VAX, Orion, and Pyramid. Most users have a single home directory which is the same on all machines, though in fact the only requirement is that they have *a* home directory on the master machine to hold their .signature file. We juggle /usr/lib/news a little using symbolic links to provide 'master' and 'slave' versions and to allow for the different CPU types. We are running News 2.11 with minor modifications. Andrew -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | andrew@me.brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------