Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!icarus!kaul From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C News, NFS and mixed CPUs: working Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 91 18:56:29 GMT References: <27DFD553.5FB9@tct.uucp> <1991Mar16.164121.2575@s1.msi.umn.edu> Sender: kaul@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu's message of Sat, 16 Mar 1991 16:41:21 GMT In article <1991Mar16.164121.2575@s1.msi.umn.edu> molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda) writes: I thought I'd describe my experiences getting Cnews to work in our networked environment... [...] Since Cnews was running on one of our Sun-3 server machines and it did all of the news processing, the only thing we really had to deal with was users posting news from the other-architecture machines. We did it yet another way: NFS mounting the news spool and using NNTP to submit articles to the news server for posting. It worked fine. We've since switched to all NNTP to keep the rebooting problems to a minimum (lots of machines all booting at the same time and trying to mount a bunch of file systems tends to cause storms and nothing ever quite boots correctly) and besides, it's cleaner to administer this way. -- Rich Kaul | "They that can give up essential liberty kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu | to obtain a little temporary safety or ...!osu-cis!kaul | deserve neither liberty nor safety."