Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!nott-cs!bhamcs!igb 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 References: <251@james.cs.bham.ac.uk> <12596@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: The Dark Depths of the CS Dungeons, Birmingham University, England Lines: 32 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 -- ian INTERNET: BattenIG%cs.bham.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu JANET: BattenIG@uk.ac.bham.cs BITNET: BattenIG%cs.bham.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet UUCP: ...!mcvax!bhamcs!BattenIG