Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: NNTP and C News Message-ID: Date: 3 Jul 89 23:20:24 GMT Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: news Lines: 37 We're an NNTP-only site and I am having some difficulty getting everything to run with C News. Right now I am trying to set it up in a parallel tree so I can make sure it is all working smoothly before I ditch B News. I'd appreciate from pointers from other nntp people regarding how I should set everything up in order to work smoothly. A side note before the NNTP stuff: in answer to the question about whether C News would be run on a bunch of machines networked together, I answered "no" -- because the C News programmes themselves (to send and receive articles from the rest of the world) will only be run on rpi.edu, though a lot of other machines mount the rpi.edu:/usenet partition. Is this correct? Okay, here's what happened with NNTP. I could really find any documentation on getting it to work, so I went into nntpdiffs and make a symlink to ../src.allnew/batch.c. I also made symlinks at ../common to the nntp common directory and linked every other .c and .h file in nntp/server into the nntpdiffs/src directory (all files that didn't conflict with a new .c file). I edited the Makefile to specify the install directory and tried to build nntpd. While linking the final programme, it complained that __space was an undefined symbol. space() had been in the old misc.c but does not appear in the new one. So, where did I go wrong? How do I get my new nntpd built? How do I get C News and B News to co-exist happily until I am satisfied that C News is working as it should? What other things about our operation should change under C News? (Ie, do I have anything new to add to cron or to the sys file?) Thanks in advance for any help given. It is very much appreciated. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills." -- Mike Price (?)