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From: netmgr@csc.fi (Pekka Kytolaakso)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: NEWS v5.9 nntp_server
Message-ID: <10.253106ce@csc.fi>
Date: 9 Oct 89 20:59:58 GMT
Organization: Center for Scientific Computimg
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I've now changed our newsserver to NEWS version 5.9. The server (it's main work
is mail (PMDF) and EARN (JNET)is a Microvax II with VMS 5.1 and CMU TCP/IP v6.4
.

The NNTP_CMUTCP server now writes all the items from one incoming connection to
one file. It used to split the incoming batches to less that 500 block files.
because the VMS update and NEWS version change too about four days we had quite
a lot of queued news and we've now got two batches ( one one Saturday and the
other on Sunday) each greater than 12000 blocks (You propably can guess that we
get about all Usenet newsgroups). i have a hacked newsadd that only adds ten
batches at a time to have enough free space to distribute traffic to five other
sites. These huge batches resulted bot in 5*12 000=60 000 blocks of temporary
files. I luckilly had enough room for them. The smaller batches from the older
version needeed at most 5*500=2 500 blocks temporary space.

I'm using nn (NoNews if Good News) as an agent to read news on a Sun
workstation. The POST command of the server seem's to have changed.
It now REQUIRES message-id, date and path headers that mini-inews, that comes
with nntp.1.5 dosnt supply, and this causes POST/Followup to fail.

There also is some trouble with the access check. I have nntp_access.news (or
whatecr it was) that allows everyone to read/post/transfer to/from any
newsgroup. When I try mini-inews with a file that has the needed headerfields
added the tranfser end in 'News not posted/posting to newsgroup no allowed'.
Is there some other accesscheck than the accessfile? I'll try to debug
the server to see what the problem is and will report if i find something
wrong.

Regards                  Pekka Kyt|laakso              
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PS Some time ago there was a dicsussion about how to make shure only one
   add or skim is running at a time. It took us 3 months but we finally 
   figured an easy (an foolproof) way to do it. We gave news an own batch 
   queue with joblimit=1.