Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: NNTP and C News Message-ID: <1989Jul4.190134.24089@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 19:01:34 GMT In article tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes: >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? The crucial issue is whether something like "inews" is ever going to get run on another machine with the expectation that it will post the article on rpi.edu, e.g. as a followup. There are all kinds of ugly problems with doing locks and such across machines, especially since NFS is so sloppy about the fine points of Unix filesystem semantics, so we duck the problem by punting everything to the server... but the software has to know that there is a server and where it is. If everything is strictly read-only for all those other machines, there should be no problem. But remember that people who read news sometimes want to post followups. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu