grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund) (12/07/89)
I'm getting ready to port usenet version B to an RT running AIX version 2.2.1. Having been burned trying to port other material, and with an added lack of time and a pressing deadline, I'm soliciting any tips people might have for me to make the port as painless as possible. Any and all suggestions, including specifics, would be great. Thanks very much. Victor D. Grund | grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu [129.22.48.4] Computer Science Department | uunet!cwjcc!pyrite!grund Case Western Reserve University | "Making tomorrow's mistakes today." Cleveland, OH ---> Home of the Cleveland Orchestra!!!
root@blender.UUCP (Herb Peyerl) (12/08/89)
I did the port about a month ago... It was fairly simple really but I had previous experience with BNews under SCO Xenix... I don't really recall what I had to do exactly for the port, but the things that stick out most in my mind were not to use the '-O' flag for inews, postnews, and vnews since my /tmp is only 2500 blocks and it quickly over-ran this during it's optimization phase. One cure I found for this was to rename /tmp to /tmp.tmp and create a link for /tmp -> /u/tmp (/u is my largest filesystem). It's kind of stupid but I'm at a loss for disk-space. Readnews would NOT compile and function correctly (core-dump) but I couldn't care less so I haven't spent any time on it. Vnews wouldn't work correctly either. It won't recognize a users .newsrc for some reason so it always comes back and says 'no news.'. To get around this, I mv'd /usr/bin/vnews to /usr/bin/vnews.kludge and then had a script in /usr/bin/vnews that basically does a '/usr/bin/vnews.kludge -n all'. Again, I don't like vnews all that much so I didn't bother with this. The news-reader I use most is 'nn' which I personally find to be very good. It compiled with NO problem's under AIX and works very well, so again, who cares about readnews and vnews? If you really have problems, then I can make up some stuff for you and ship it off, but really, it only took a few hours work to get it working properly. Just make sure your permissions are correct before you start and maybe start with a valid blank active file.. Good luck. And while we're on the topic, has anyone ELSE gotten CNEWS to work? I just got the source the other day and haven't had a chance to tackle it... Should I watch for anything in particular before I get started? (under AIX 2.2.1 preferably...)