ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) (02/22/90)
I am using an old Sun-3/50 as a news server for a number of machines on the same ethernet as it is -- the idea was to make it the server and have the other machines either NFS mount the disk or use NNTP client software. It is running 2.11.17 and NNTP 1.5.7 and gets its feed via NNTP from a single machine. Everything works fine, except that the inews on this 3/50 complains that it can't run uux -- which is fine because it doesn't need uux, but it is an irritant. This may seem kind of stupid, but how should I be configuring Bnews so as not to depend on uucp software? The only reference I have found are the variables DFTXMIT and UXMIT in defs.h -- am I supposed to make these null or something? Thanx, -Ittai
ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) (02/22/90)
> Everything works fine, except that the inews on this 3/50 complains > that it can't run uux -- which is fine because it doesn't need uux, I solved the problem. Thanks to Sandy Bryant and Joe Weening who both suspected the problem was in my sys file. Once put on the right track, I experimented a little and determined the exact problem and solution. The problem occurred because: a) my sys file had the local (i.e. server) hostname hardcoded. b) some news readers/posters on the client machines required that their hostname also be listed in the sys file, so I added those as well. As a consequence the server machine would try to send any new news to those clients listed in the sys file (via the default mechanism -- uux). The solution is that instead of hardcoding the local hostname in the sys file, one should use "ME" -- which each machine (server and clients) will interpret correctly as itself, keeping everyone happy. In other words, the sys file should contain one line for each incoming or outgoing feed, plus the line: ME:all -Ittai