bergman@odin.m2c.org (Michael Bergman) (04/01/89)
We have a bunch of microvaxen/vaxstations running off a fullscale Vax. The Vax is where the news is. When I run gnuemacs on the Vax, it reads news just fine (except that it thinks I've never looked at any of the messages) When I run it from one of the workstations, it tells me "no news is good news" --obviously not finding the news path, which is not surprising, since its not mounted on the workstation. Obviously (well, fairly obviously) I could mount the news directory somewhere and tell emacs that news is there instead of the usual place, and I'm fairly confident I could figure out how to get rnews to cooperate without to much trouble. But I suspect that this would mess up our mailer, which I believe counts on that directory being private to each machine, and I'm curious as to whether there's a way to tell rnews to go out on the net to get the news from the other machine, the way xrn and rn do. Any bright ideas out there? --mike bergman bergman@m2c.org
rich@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) (04/03/89)
In article <4709@m2c.M2C.ORG> bergman@odin.m2c.org (Michael Bergman) writes:
[about the failure of rnews to find nntp servers or alternate news
spools.]
You have several choices. You can mount the news spool nfs and read
from there, or get a news reader that can handle nntp. Both gnus and
Gnews seem to do a fair job although you'll really want gnus for
either novice users or small cpu machines. Gnews is far more complete
and expansive but you pay for it in cpu usage.
gnus, btw, seems faster than even rn.
--
rich.