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From: oldam@MATH.LIU.SE (Olof Damberg)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: AMDS in an non-AFS environment ?
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Date: 7 Apr 91 18:38:25 GMT
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I am considering setting up AMDS here at our site, in order to be able to
handle mail, bboards, netnews etc. in a consistent fashion.

However, after having consulted the available documents in the Andrew
distribution, and after having watched the traffic in the info-andrew
newsgroup for quite a while, I have realized that this is not an easy task.

The huge number of parameters which need to be set to get the delivery system
up and running is a discouraging factor. I also find that if you are in an
non-AFS environment, then the installation procedure is not as well defined as
in an AFS environment.
Furthermore, we do not have AFS specific programs such as 'mpp' and 'package',
which are needed (?) to build and maintain the delivery system.

The AMDS installation doc 'AMDS.ins' says that AMDS will also work in an 
non-AFS environment, so my question is:
Is it possible to run AMDS in an NFS environment ? (I do not expect it to 
be at all trivial, but I hope it is manageable.)

If there are sites out there running AMDS (perhaps with bboards and netnews
etc.) in an NFS environment, I would be very grateful if they could share
their experiences with me. Was it worth the trouble ?
(I would surely appreciate anything from the smallest hint to copies of setup
files, scripts etc. with the parameters used at your site.)

Many thanks!
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Olof Damberg				| email: oldam@math.liu.se
Dept of Math, Linkoping University	| phone: +46 13 281473
S-581 83  Linkoping, SWEDEN		| fax:   +46 13 100746

Some site-info:
A net of Sun4's (2 servers and ~40 diskless clients) 
running SUNOS 4.0.3 (soon 4.1.1) and NFS.
ATK patchlevel 9.
X11R4 patchlevel 18.