rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (09/28/90)
I have C news running, but want to make it accessible to other hosts on our local network. We can share files with NFS. However the hosts are not binary compatible, so separate news software will be needed on the other hosts. These seem to be the possibilities: 1. Install C-news and a news reader on other hosts. Have them mount my news spool and control directories. (These will already be remote mounted for other reasons). Use the C-news ability to use identify a server host. 2. Install an nntp client newsreader such as rrn. 3. Use a hybrid system. Install a news reader and those parts needed to read news, using the NFS mounted directories. But use the 'inews' that comes with 'nntp', so that the posting from the other nodes is done with nntp. I would appreciate any advice, or suggestions for other options. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (09/28/90)
In article <1990Sep27.212347.15099@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >... We can share files with NFS. However the hosts are not >binary compatible, so separate news software will be needed on the other >hosts. Note that if any of the software in question wants to read the history database, you'll want to at least use the C News dbz, which works even if the machine that built the database and the one reading it have different byte orders. Neither dbm nor old dbz has this property. -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
glee@tigris.uucp (Godfrey Lee) (10/06/90)
In article <1990Sep27.212347.15099@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > I have C news running, but want to make it accessible to other hosts on our >local network. We can share files with NFS. However the hosts are not >binary compatible, so separate news software will be needed on the other >hosts. If you are not too worried about performance on the server, then just install CNews on the server, NFS mount the /usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news directories (symbolic links come in handy here), and then install separate newsreader on each client (e.g. rn). To post news articles, just have the appropriate postnews script (e.g. Pnews) execute a "rsh <server> inews" instead of just "inews". This also has the side effect that all articles appear as if they are posted from the server, which is what you want the outside world to see anyways. -- Godfrey Lee cognos!alzabo!tigris!glee
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/09/90)
In article <1990Oct6.040718.4302@tigris.uucp> glee@tigris.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) writes: >... just have the appropriate postnews script (e.g. Pnews) execute >a "rsh <server> inews" instead of just "inews". Actually, inews will do the rsh for you if configuration details are right. -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
glee@tigris.uucp (Godfrey Lee) (10/13/90)
In article <1990Oct9.151429.3837@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >Actually, inews will do the rsh for you if configuration details are right. Just for clarification, /bin/inews in Cnews is a shell script. I was thinking of Bnews where /bin/inews is a C program, and the original poster wanted to avoid compiling separate programs for each client in a heterogeneous hardware platform environment. -- Godfrey Lee cognos!alzabo!tigris!glee