Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: C News, NFS and mixed CPUs: working
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.054648.7452@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 05:46:48 GMT
References: <27DFD553.5FB9@tct.uucp>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc

In article <27DFD553.5FB9@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>We just got an IBM RS/6000, and it was going relatively unused, so we
>decided to move Usenet there.  It turned out to be a little more
>complicated than I expected.  I'm sure other people have run into
>these problems: what did you do?

>RS/6000:
>    A partition /news, with NEWSBIN of /news/cbin, NEWSLIB of
>    /news/lib, and NEWSCONFIG of /news/lib/bin/config.

[Chip describes other arrangements on NFS'd machines]

>C NEWS SEMI-BUG #2:
>    Remote (client) inews is quite smart, automatically running
>    relaynews on the server.  But it has a bug: it assumes that
>    the paths on the server are the same as those on the client.

Wouldn't most of your problems go away if you symlinked/rmounted
all of the cnews directories into the "usual" places (ala,
/usr/lib/news, /usr/lib/newsbin, /usr/spool/news etc.) in all of
the machines?

Thus you can have everything physically where you wanted, but
"virtually" the same everywhere.

(I've installed Cnews on a RS/6000 and had no troubles at all,
though, of course, it ain't networked with anybody.  The install
on it used up almost my whole disk for /usr, so I had to put
news on the /u partition.  But I symlinked everything under
/usr.  And when I was able to clean /usr up, I just needed
to copy things over to where they should be and resymlink
them)
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