gerland@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jim Gerland) (12/28/89)
I am trying to install V5.9 and have a few questions.
The person who installed V5.8 is no longer here so please bear with me.
We would like to use the NNTP with V5.9 and WIN/TCP V5.1
I decided to just install V5.9 from scratch and have followed the instructions
in the doc (although it is V5.8 - is there a newer doc?).
I get to the point in section 10.9 First Time Execution of NEWS and things
begin to fall apart. It does not do what paragraph 2 says it should (create
files in news_root: and news_manager:).
So then I invoke NEWS and first do a SET NEWSGROUP DEFAULT /SERVER=NEWS
/PROTOCAL=WINTCP /FILEHOLD=0, where NEWS is the name of my Unix newsserver,
eerie.cs.buffalo.edu
Next, I CREATE CONTROL /LOCAL and CREATE JUNK /LOCAL as per the last paragraph
in section 10.9 and then go into rn on my Unix machine and get the latest
version of checkgroups. from the news.admin newsgroup, copy it to my
VAXcluster, edit it appropriately and do an ADD FILE CHECKGROUPS. but this
only adds an entry into the CONTROL newsgroup. Am I doing something wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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SUNY at Buffalo gerland@ubvm (VM/CMS)jeh@simpact.com (12/30/89)
In article <15300@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, gerland@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jim Gerland) writes: > I am trying to install V5.9 and have a few questions.... You're working too hard. If 5.8 is already set up and running, you need only to place the executable for 5.9 in the same directory where 5.8 has always been, and do an INSTALL> REPLACE on it. No need to do any of the "first time execution" stuff. Maybe do an INSTALL> LIST/FULL to make sure it's installed with SYSPRV. Repeat as necessary for the NNTP-related images. Btw, my personal number one favorite mistake when bringing up a new version of NEWS is to forget to INSTALL the new image file. Without SYSPRV, NEWS can't do much. Of course my account has SYSPRV so when I test it all works well, but when others try it... hoo boy. --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG Internet: jeh@simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!jeh