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From: sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Problems with NNTP on Sun network
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Date: 11 May 88 03:37:26 GMT
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Reply-To: sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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If you are using nfs to read and nntp to post, you need to be sure that
the SERVER to which you are posting is running the REAL inews and not
the mini-inews. Most sites typically install the fake-inews in /usr/local
and make sure that Pnews, postnews and friends use the fake inews on the
clients and the real inews (typically, /usr/lib/news/inews) on the server
ONLY.

The most common mistake made by people trying to do this "hybird" system
is over writing the "REAL" inews with the "FAKE" inews. This is not
a sun-specific problem.


Stan           internet: sob@tmc.edu          Baylor College of Medicine
Olan           uucp: {rice,killer,hoptoad}!academ!sob
Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine.