From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihuxw!larry
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: sys file help needed
Article-I.D.: ihuxw.209
Posted: Wed Sep  1 20:33:06 1982
Received: Sun Sep  5 05:10:40 1982

Well, after conquering the problem we were having on that PDP 11/70,
I've stumbled upon something else.

Picture this--  on one machine (a vax)  I have the netnews system that
the "average users" access  --  and my private version that I use for
testing.  Both are entirely seperate, NO common files or dirs.  Here
comes the tricky part.  I would like to set up a direct feed between two
netnews systems.  Indeed I have the arrangement working IF I go thru the
local net (the "rje" usend net).  This seems rather silly to spool off a
job just to go from one corner of the machine to another.  However, when
I change the command portion of the "sys" file entry to call my
private 'rnews' directly, I get Article lock up's.  If I switch to using
redirection to save the file, then cat the file into my 'rnews' it
works.

Is there some reason why I can't have an UNRELATED inews and rnews
running at the same time??

	thanks,
		Larry Marek
		 ihuxw!larry
		  Bell Labs, Naperville