Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!unido!infbs!tubsibr!postnews From: neitzel (Martin Neitzel) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Still having problems with C News and NNTP Message-ID: <1989Jul19.170510.14054@tubsibr.uucp> Date: 19 Jul 89 17:05:10 GMT References: Sender: postnews@tubsibr.uucp (News) Distribution: news Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 46 tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: DCL> DCL> [...] Why the heck it was rshing anywhere is not currently DCL> something I understand. Sounds familiar to me. After we had failed at our first built (NFS-version) we tried a second attempt "from scratch" with the config script for the simplest thing we could imagine: a standalone configuration. However, this won't remove a number of files in the NEWSLIB directory. Particularly, the presence of the file "server" indicated still an NFS configuration to cnews. Just remove it. DCL> All in all this whole installation has been quite DCL> disappointing. I was hoping to have it all running nice and DCL> smoothly. Instead I find the documentation spread out and DCL> sometimes very sketchy, very few clear examples about how DCL> certain things should be set up and lots of things that I DCL> don't appear to need at all. I second this motion. Installing B News the first time required you to read the looong installation guide again and again and you had to to tweak an option here and there several times. But all in all, I felt it to be more transparent (and quicker) than a C news installation is now. I am not at all comfortable with the mystery magic that the C News installation does. While the ReadMe suggested an easy trip with the help of a smart shell script, I ended up rather confused. Especially the nfs setup with its symbolic links and ignorance of suggested directory names. Just my irrelevant feeling about it, of course Henry and Geoff are entitled to do their way... DCL> o The documentation says that I should be able to run B News DCL> and C News concurrently until I am sure that C News is DCL> working. This is indeed what I would have done but I couldn't DCL> find anything to tell me how to actually go about doing it. The C news installation clobbered the B news "rnews" binary with its own script here. Make a backup copy if it's not late. Martin