tanner@cerritos.edu (12/07/89)
Since moving from News 5.7 to 5.9B, we've had a problem with News trying to post everything to all the sites listed in NEWS.SYS. Under 5.7 our NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file was empty except for comments; under 5.9, any news 'source' that is not listed in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION will forward to all other sites in NEWS.SYS. If a news 'source' is put in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION, it will only route news to the specified 'destinations' but will route ALL news items added or posted, not just the newsgroups that match the corresponding entries in NEWS.SYS. I've managed to keep a lid on outgoing news by distributing all of my news to NEWS.SYS entries that specify non-existant news batch files. I still have the problem that any local posting still tries to go out. Help! Has News changed from 5.7 in the usage of NEWS.DISTRIBUTION or NEWS.SYS? Am I a victim of lack of documentation? Or have I just done something dumb? Thanks, -Bruce -- Bruce Tanner (213) 860-2451 x 596 Tanner@Cerritos.EDU Cerritos College Norwalk, CA cerritos!tanner
fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) (12/08/89)
In article <4897.257d3e75@cerritos.edu>, tanner@cerritos.edu writes: > Since moving from News 5.7 to 5.9B, we've had a problem with News trying to > post everything to all the sites listed in NEWS.SYS. Under 5.7 our > NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file was empty except for comments; under 5.9, any news > 'source' that is not listed in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION will forward to all other > sites in NEWS.SYS. If a news 'source' is put in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION, it will > only route news to the specified 'destinations' but will route ALL news > items added or posted, not just the newsgroups that match the corresponding > entries in NEWS.SYS. Look at your NEWS.SYS file to see if you included the word 'all' as part of the entry for the site that gets everything. I noticed that my subdirectory was getting all news postings and not just the map even though I told it to accept 'comp.mail.maps'. I also had the 'all' specified as in 'all,world,na,...'. Looks like 'all' overrides something and sends 'all' newsitems regardless. Hope that may help. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ____ ___ Earle Ake /___ /___/ / / Science Applications International Corporation ____// / / /__ Dayton, Ohio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: fac2%dayton.saic.com@uunet.uu.net uucp: uunet!dayvb!fac2
tanner@cerritos.edu (12/08/89)
In article <851.257e4ce6@dayton.saic.com>, fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes: > Looks like 'all' overrides something and sends 'all' > newsitems regardless. That was it! All my NEWS.SYS entries had "world,all" in them. I can see where 'all' might stand for all newsgroups, but I can't see why 'all' means 'route all news to me'. That's what NEWS.DISTRIBUTION is for, isn't it? Thanks for the help, -Bruce -- Bruce Tanner (213) 860-2451 x 596 Tanner@Cerritos.EDU Cerritos College Norwalk, CA cerritos!tanner
jeh@simpact.com (12/09/89)
In article <4897.257d3e75@cerritos.edu>, tanner@cerritos.edu writes: > Since moving from News 5.7 to 5.9B, we've had a problem with News trying to > post everything to all the sites listed in NEWS.SYS. Under 5.7 our > NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file was empty except for comments; under 5.9, any news > 'source' that is not listed in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION will forward to all other > sites in NEWS.SYS. If a news 'source' is put in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION, it will > only route news to the specified 'destinations' but will route ALL news > items added or posted, not just the newsgroups that match the corresponding > entries in NEWS.SYS. In 5.8 (I think), and certainly in 5.9, the meaning of "all" changed. I think that it now means "everything, except for groups explicitly denied via !name". Check your news.sys entries for "all"s, and get rid of them. --- 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