lwv27@CAS.BITNET (08/16/90)
If a site was going to try to bring up a fresh new news installation, BUT they are currently running a very old version of B News (version x.y.z) AND it isnt quite working right anyways... where should they start? If a site just blows away the active and history files, then users will get bent all out of shape. If they dont, will things not get pretty messed up? Some other data points: This is a MicroVax running Ultrix 2.2 right now. The news is then NNTP'd on a LAN which is restricted to a few local ether segments. Which News software - B, C, or 3.0, would be best to run on a MicroVax with approx. 300 or more NNTP users running against it? It currently gets batches in over a modem, but Ethernet delivery is likely to appear in the future. -- Larry W. Virden Business: UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 Proline: lvirden@pro-tcc.cts.com America Online: lvirden CIS: [75046,606]
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (08/17/90)
In article <9008161603.AA28047@jade.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes: >If a site just blows away the active and history files, then users will >get bent all out of shape. If they dont, will things not get pretty >messed up? You don't want to blow away active; there is information there that is difficult to recover. You may want to rebuild the history file from scratch to make sure it's right. >Which News software - B, C, or 3.0, would be best to run on a MicroVax >with approx. 300 or more NNTP users running against it? C News definitely takes the prize on performance, but it will need some getting used to, as it is not sysadmin-compatible with B News. 3.0 is not a realistic competitor for production use at the moment, as it's still under development. (It's not sysadmin-compatible either, and I believe it has incompatibilities at the reader interface too, which C News does not.) -- It is not possible to both understand | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry