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From: winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans)
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Subject: Re: posting spawns off multiple nntpd's
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Date: 3 Sep 90 20:29:59 GMT
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In article <1990Aug29.180822.10876@nas.nasa.gov> jude@nas.nasa.gov (Jude A. George) writes:
>I have just set up an NNTP server.  Occasionally when I attempt to post
>(using rn) from a machine other than the server machine, dozens of
>additional nntpd and inews processes are forked on the server.  This only
>happens when I actually try to post an article; when rn is first started up,
>there is only the usual 1 nntpd process.
>
>I don't think the problem is with rn, since the other machines are using
>the same version of rn as the server.
>
>The server is running on a Sun 4 with SunOS 4.0.3.  It was not compiled
>with the ALONE flag.  Has anyone had problems similar to this?

Not that I'd ever want to admit ;-)

NNTP is running the remote version of inews on your server (as in mini-inews)
instead of the "honest-to-god real inews".  It is either in your common/conf.h
file in the nntp source, that you specified the wrong path name to the 
real inews (see the README file under common), or you simply put
the wrong version of inews where you were *planning* on putting the full
version.

If this makes no sense to you, look at the version of inews that comes with rn
and the version that comes with nntp.
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