Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!cpdaux!steve From: steve@cpdaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Usenet software Message-ID: <539@cpdaux.UUCP> Date: 10 Oct 89 11:54:56 GMT References: <651@wet.UUCP> Reply-To: cpdaux!steve@apple.com (Steve Lemke) Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Products Design, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 76 In article <651@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: } }Yes, under 0.9... } }Anyway, I have B News 2.11.17 (with fixes), nntp 1.5.6, rn 40, }rrn seemingly running. (Patch too.) How's the performance on unpacking and expiring news with B News? I've heard that cnews is much, much faster, but I had some difficulty in trying to get it going. My other problem is that the modem isn't here yet, so I'm not getting any news batches so as to test what I've compiled. }Larry Wall's Configure has some problems. }It doesn't like the GNU cpp, so it had to be faked out somewhat. I'm assuming you meant where it checks "abc=xyz" and you have to insert a space before the '=' in order to get it pass the test? }It also guessed wrong on VFORK and GETPWENT. I ran into several problems with the configure scripts also - I wonder if the Configure script will be changed to be more NeXT-friendly. }I added window size support to rn, fixed Pnews to use recording }and understand how our NeXT clusters handle mail. NNTP needed }work too;... } }It's going to undergo a bit more testing before I consider it }ready for release, but the problems I've encountered seem not to }be NeXT-dependent. Any chance when you're finished of sending the problems back to the appropriate people so future relases might (gasp) be able to be compiled with no problems by neophytes like myself instead of having to hack through all this stuff? }Oh yeah, I had to increase the maximum }.newsrc lines limit and hash table size--1000 wasn't enough! What did you do about Pnews not being able to create a .newsrc? From what I've seen, I don't think it's a NeXT-specific problem - something about sed not being able to handle more than 10 something-or-others at a time. Is there a known fix to this? }A few more things too, that I don't remember at the moment. }netnews has its own partition on the server NeXT's second 660MB }drive, tuned appropriately and fat with inodes. We only have a single 660 mb drive, but it's only got about 260mb on it right now. Any parameter changes we should make when we get a full news feed going on it? (The machine has 8mb of RAM though we'll probably try to bump that up to 16mb if it will help). }Backing up to floptical is no fun, and getting less so as our }current 1.3GB fills... Time to order another 660... Yes, I know - 95ms is SO slow, but then again, it sure beats 40mb tape cartridges or (ugg) floppies!! It DOES hold quite a bit more on one physical unit, and is mountable. Incidentally, is there an easy way to back up the whole drive to two disks? I decided since we're over 250mb to just back up /usr/local (since we just installed 1.0 and could re-do it if necessary, and all additional changes have been in /usr/local.) }Thanks to AMBAR for help with nntp--the documentation leaves a }lot to be desired. I may want to try to get this running, too, as we have other machines on the ether that may want to be able to read news - not to mention there are some programs appearing (like Hypercard stacks, etc.) that can read news through nntp. -- ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: cpdaux!steve@apple.com GEnie: LEMKE ----- Or try: apple!cpdaux!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"