Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!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: Re: Still having problems with C News and NNTP Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 89 01:48:17 GMT References: <1989Jul18.170541.18524@utzoo.uucp> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Lines: 44 In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp's message of 18 Jul 89 17:05:41 GMT In <1989Jul18.170541.18524@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: HS> If you *are* running on the server, something is wrong with either your HS> hostname command or the contents of /usr/lib/news/server, I'd say. That was it. hostname on rpi.edu is returning just rpi, which is broken AFAIC. In I whined: Me> o The documentation says that I should be able to run B News and C Me>News concurrently until I am sure that C News is working. This is Me>indeed what I would have done but I couldn't find anything to tell me Me>how to actually go about doing it. HS> It isn't especially difficult: just have rnews/cunbatch feed the incoming HS> stuff to both news systems, and configure C News so it puts its directories HS> somewhere other than the places B News uses. Oh yes, and you'd best make HS> sure that only one of the two is feeding your neighbors! Okay, in Jean-Francois' correspondence with me he summarized how NNTP interacted with the news system: (yes, private correspondence; seems quite harmless in this case) JF> For NNTP, nntpd creates the batches in in.coming and calls newsrun JF> immediately, bypassing newsspool. All the binaries are being kept separate. The libcnews directory is separate. The spool directory would hopefully be shared. What JF says though doesn't even indicate to me that rnews/cunbatch is used in my environment. And inetd.conf can really only point to one nntpd, so which would it point to? The one that is supposed to work for B News or the one which should work for C News? One other thing: just before I HUP inetd I've been rebuilding the history file and awking the B News active file so everything will start up right. I've been trying to provide an unnoticeable transition to C News for our users and it seems that the way this should happen is to have the B News active file and the new history file current when the C News nntpd kicks in. Is this all correct? Thanks for all of your help. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))