[news.sysadmin] Apollo ring news administration

bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) (02/12/88)

     Are there any special considerations to administering news
on an Apollo workstation ring?  I am interested in the following:
	
	- how do you link other nodes on the same ring to the
	 the news/UUCP node ?  I'd like to have the executable 
	 for readnews, postnews, vnews, and eventually rn
	 on all nodes and have one ring-wide /usr/spool/news.
	(but I want to make sure that the outside world will
	see the correct return address for mail replies).

	- at the moment, I have each /usr/spool/news and /usr/lib/news
	linked to the news node and have all the news-related 
	executables in /usr/bin on each node...this seems to work
	but the remote nodes on the Apollo ring sometimes indicate
	a "uux failed, code -1 " message after posting a message
	from them (but the posting was successful!!!). 

Any ideas ??? Feel free to reply by mail if you'd rather...thanks.
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     Vince Skahan            Boeing Computer Services - Phila.
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