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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Many machines, one news system
Message-ID: <1816@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 03:11:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 03:11:40 1984
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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I've also been thinking about the problems of running news
transparently over a net.  At Sun we currently rlogin to 'sun' to deal
with news.  My best idea so far is to run /usr/spool/news as a network
file system and let users on any machine mount it read-only, running
the current vnews/readnews/rn.  However, inews should be run via rpc or
rsh to the server to avoid race conditions in database updates.