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From: igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten )
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Problems with NNTP on Sun network
Message-ID: <257@bhamcs.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 10:43:50 GMT
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Keywords: nntp sun unix help

karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
> igb@cs.bham.ac.uk says...
>    nntpd starts up OK, and the mini-inews reports success.  But nothing
>    happens --- nothing goes in to news' log or errlog.  The NNTP log
>    contains details of the call and its "successful" posting.  I hacked
>    inews to redirect its "DEBUG" output to a file --- according to this
>    inews never even calls history!  Files of zero-length called L
>    are left in /tmp on the server.
> 
> You probably haven't gotten around to playing symlink games with the
> real inews and the NNTP inews.  That is, your Sun server's
> /usr.MC68020 no doubt contains a local inews so that it can do real
> posting; as mounted on a client 3/50, that inews is useless, as it

Hah!  Symbolic links are for WIMPS!!!!! :-)

What I did is put the nntp-ified inews in lib/inews and the genuine
2.11.14 inews in lib/local/inews.  When I compiled nntpd I told it that
inews was in lib/local/inews.

Thanks for the idea though --- I didn't realise this straight away and
got a nifty race condition as inews on the nntp server kept calling
inews on the nntp server over the net.

ian


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ian

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