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From: alberti@cs.umn.edu (Bob Alberti)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: NNTP and CNEWS questions
Summary: Questions to make documenting NNTP and CNEWS installation easier
Keywords: nntp, nntpd, C News, doc, documentation, install
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.204020.24044@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 20:40:20 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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     I've installed CNEWS and NNTP on an A/UX machine and I'm busy writing
a technical note for future installers to ease their task.  This outlines
the various stunts you have to pull to get the programs to compile under
A/UX, where to get sources and updates, how to apply patches, and how to
maintain everything once its running.
    So some questions:
    What site would be the best to get nntp and cnews from?  I currently list
uunet.uu.net, but I've noticed the cnews file on there has moved recently.
I want to be able to say "A reasonably current copy of cnews is at xx.yy in
the /pub/cnews directory" and have the statement remain true.
    How do you apply patches obtained off this newsgroup?
    Maintenance:  my history.pag file grows quickly to 8 Megs of data.  Why?
Should I just use cron to blow it away occasionally?

    Thanks in advance for any help anyone can lend.
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