Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Still having problems with C News and NNTP Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 22:07:51 GMT Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: news Lines: 51 Sigh. This is getting exasperating. Today I finally made the big kill -HUP of inetd to jump into C News and it was seriously broken. This whole thing is rather frustrating. Here is just a small summary of the problems I have encountered on rpi.edu, a Sun 3 running SunOS 4. o doexpire is a real pain. It bombed out in cron when it kept trying to rsh to somewhere. Why the heck it was rshing anywhere is not currently something I understand. o I moved nntp_support stuff from contrib into $NEWSBIN/nntp where it could be found. I had to take care of stuff like complaints from server_inews not being able to find server.censor, server_censor not using the GMT date format which we prefer, message-ids not being generated the way we want them for default ids and Lines: not being added. As of when I switched back to B News I still hadn't conquered the lines problem. o While I switched over to my C News nntpd I didn't get any articles from other sites. I could, however, post a couple of test messages to rpi.test with GNUS. All in all this whole installation has been quite disappointing. I was hoping to have it all running nice and smoothly. Instead I find the documentation spread out and sometimes very sketchy, very few clear examples about how certain things should be set up and lots of things that I don't appear to need at all. Examples: o We don't do _any_ UUCP. I'd much rather just blast all of the files related to only UUCP off my disks so I have less clutter and a more easily understood set of files. o DBZ is there and seems like a performance win. Documentation on how I should compile with it, however, is hard to come by in the distribution if it is indeed there at all. o The documentation says that I should be able to run B News and C News concurrently until I am sure that C News is working. This is indeed what I would have done but I couldn't find anything to tell me how to actually go about doing it. I know this sounds like a major gripe. I'm sorry. I'm sure that Geoff and Henry did a fine job in the programming of C News. I am just having a really hard time getting it all to work and it has me very frustrated. Any help would be appreciated. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))