kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (09/28/90)
After a successful install of cnews, rn, and nntp, now I'm sitting back and looking at what I did. My system setup is a network of Sun Sparcstation 1's all running SunOS 4.1. I'm using rn 4.3 pl47, nntp 1.5.10, and cnews ?.?.? (forgot to check before coming here). It's a closed setup right now, pending the receipt of my router. I have it set up so that the clients, diskless and dataless, mount the /usr partition via NFS (among others). That means that /usr/local/bin, the main repository for the programs I install, is the same across all of the systems, server & clients alike. So's /usr/lib/news. That's where I run into problems. Right now I have it set up so that the NFS clients all work on /usr/lib/news etc etc. That's ok. But I'm afraid that the locking either isn't or won't work right, so someday two people will simultaneously post and REALLY screw things up. I tried to get the nntp client inews to work, and it did..on the clients. But when the server ran that, it looped itself to death. So whatcha suggest? When people type 'rn' on any of the systems, they'll all be running the same program, which rules out putting the normal rn on the server & rrn on the clients. No can do. All recommendations are more than welcome! Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu [ Oct 16 they say; tune in & see ] For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Also: brendan.kehoe@cyber.widener.edu
sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (09/28/90)
You can't run the NNTP inews on the server. The best approach is to build
two /usr/lib/news, one for the server and one for the clients. Have the
client's inews be the NNTP inews and use the regular inews on the server.
If you are running REAL rrn, you don't need access to the databases on
the server. That's what NNTP does.
I don't know if you are running BNEWS or CNEWS, but BNEWS has an NFS
switch in it to facilitate usage in a setup similiar to the one you
seem to describe. Have a look at that.
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