Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cadtroy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!wivax!cadmus!cadtroy!schoff From: schoff@cadtroy.UUCP (Martin Lee Schoffstall) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Re: Many machines, one news system Message-ID: <143@cadtroy.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 10:54:29 EST Article-I.D.: cadtroy.143 Posted: Sun Dec 2 10:54:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 08:13:13 EST References: <1901@nsc.UUCP> <1816@sun.uucp> Organization: CADMUS [Troy Office], Troy NY Lines: 19 > 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. This is very similar to what we have done at CADMUS for the last year. We have the news database machine mounted say as /NEWS which is then put in the /etc/passwd entry as user "news"'s login directory. Everything works really well while doing "readnews". inews is the problem. It would seem to me that someone could change inews such that you could run inews on another machine. This handle would be system distribution specific, SUN would use their RPC, CADMUS would use their RPC etc... marty {wivax,linus,bbncca,seismo}!cadmus!schoff USENET-LAND schoff@cadmusv.ARPA ARPA-LAND