Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews remote execution
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.165959.985@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4719@sater.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 16:59:59 GMT

In article <4719@sater.cs.vu.nl> sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren) writes:
>The support in the Cnews distribution for networked systems assumes
>the rsh command for remote calling of relaynews. If you NFS mount
>your /usr/spool/news from a machine where people are not allowed to
>execute commands, it would be much nicer if you could easily set it
>up to use NNTP to post articles...

It's not something we provide for at the moment.  We basically don't
consider ourselves to be in the NNTP-support business, so we haven't
gotten too involved with it.  Possibly the simplest method would be to
arrange a mailing address on the forbidden machine which feeds into
the news system.
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