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From: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Help with nntp under Sys V.3
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.210651.1712@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 3 Jul 90 21:06:51 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.201138.2629@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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From article <1990Jun28.201138.2629@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>, by rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson):
I wrote that:
> 
> I am trying to bring up nntp in server mode under AT&T Sys V R 3.2.2 on 
> my AT&T 3B2/600G and have run into some difficuties.  Yes I know the
> README.SYSV for version 1.5.8 says they are still working on it.
 
I would now like to report that I think I have it working, or at least partialy
so.  My feed site finally connected and according to the logfile, I accepted
29 articles for posting from a very resticted set of groups with no rejections
or failures. On the down side, for every article offered, the message:
"gethistent: histfile: no such file or directory" was placed in the logfile.

In common/conf.h HISTORY_FILE was defined as "/usr/lib/news/history" which
is where the file is located with global read access.  Is the above behavior
normal when using nntp with cnews?

Once I am sure everything, both client and server, are working, I will send
diffs to Stan Barber for inclusion in a forth coming release.

For those of you who can't wait, mail me a request.  If I get too many, I will
summarize to the net.
-- 
Mike Dobson 
Sys Admin for nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (AT&T 3B2/600G running Sys V R 3.2)
Internet:  rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil or 
UUCP:      ..uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med or