joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (10/31/85)
I'm trying to set up a low-volume, low-usage (maybe 1 user) news feed
at a Eunice site. I only got 2.10.3 running on my site with some difficulty.
I have no desire to SA the Eunice site as well.
Eunice comes with "news(1)", a Bill Joy-written variant of msgs,
that looks like it can handle a limited amount of news traffic with
less flexibility. I can't find reference to it in any of my 4.1 or 4.2
manuals, but their are some mock aliases in /usr/lib/aliases.
If I wanted to feed, say, 4 or 5 newsgroups via uucp mail, would
this news(1) do the job? If so, how?
Alternately, how hard is it to run 2.10.3 netnews on Eunice?
Joel West
CACI, Inc. Federal (c/o Gould CSD, San Diego)
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gould9!joel@nosc.ARPAjbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) (11/03/85)
> Alternately, how hard is it to run 2.10.3 netnews on Eunice? > > Joel West I don't know about 2.10.3, as I haven't seen the code yet. This site runs 2.10.2 news under Eunice. The hacking was done by Chip Rosenthal (t12tst!chip), and I've contributed some bug fixes. It works, but it's not ideal. This site runs Eunice v3.2, which runs under version 3.x VMS. Wollongong botched the VMS V4 conversion badly, and still hasn't succeeded in getting UUCP to work on a VMS V4.x version of Eunice (if this has changed and they haven't notified me, then they are botching the software support). Conclusion: if the Eunice site is running VMS V4, you are out of luck. Otherwise perhaps I can help. -- Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc. UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck | 10011 N. Foothill Blvd. ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA | Cupertino, CA 95014