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From: stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Rn locks active file on Apollos
Keywords: postnews, active locked
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.153336.8268@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 15:33:36 GMT
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In article <4f8ebb1a.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> rees@citi.umich.edu
	(Jim Rees) writes:
>In article <1991Jan31.195615.13448@engin.umich.edu>,
	stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes:
>
>  In article <168@numenor.gtephx.UUCP> yountm@gtephx.UUCP (Marvin Yount) writes:
>  >I'm trying to get Rn set up on our Apollo site.  I've got it running
>  >pretty well (up to patch 45), but we have noticed a situation regarding
>  >the locking of the active file...
>
>  The solution is to forget completely about the Apollo //* filesystem, and
>  install C-news and NNTP on an individual Apollo node, and use rn with NNTP
>  to access the articles.
>
>That's one way to do it, but it seems a shame to not use the Apollo
>distributed file system to read the articles.  Using nntp will put a bigger
>load on both clients and servers and slow down your news readers.

The articles have to get around the ring one way or another...
If there is a slowdown, it's imperceptible to anything but a program,
and doesn't impact the reading of news.

>What we did at Apollo, and what the Engineering School here did until
>recently, was closer to what Willem suggests. 

(Not too recently here at Engineering...  Over a year or so...)

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