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From: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Using rrn & nntp on NFS clients
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Date: 27 Sep 90 19:56:33 GMT
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  After a successful install of cnews, rn, and nntp, now I'm sitting back
and looking at what I did.
  My system setup is a network of Sun Sparcstation 1's all running SunOS 4.1.
I'm using rn 4.3 pl47, nntp 1.5.10, and cnews ?.?.? (forgot to check
before coming here). It's a closed setup right now, pending the receipt of
my router.
  I have it set up so that the clients, diskless and dataless, mount the
/usr partition via NFS (among others). That means that /usr/local/bin, the
main repository for the programs I install, is the same across all of
the systems, server & clients alike. So's /usr/lib/news.
  That's where I run into problems. Right now I have it set up so that the
NFS clients all work on /usr/lib/news etc etc. That's ok. But I'm afraid
that the locking either isn't or won't work right, so someday two people
will simultaneously post and REALLY screw things up.
  I tried to get the nntp client inews to work, and it did..on the clients.
But when the server ran that, it looped itself to death.
  So whatcha suggest? When people type 'rn' on any of the systems, they'll
all be running the same program, which rules out putting the normal rn on
the server & rrn on the clients. No can do.
  All recommendations are more than welcome!

Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu [ Oct 16 they say; tune in & see ]
For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Also: brendan.kehoe@cyber.widener.edu