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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Is UUNET going to upgrade?
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.222708.27277@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Jun 91 22:27:08 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.144434.21216@m2xenix.psg.com> <1991Jun18.024342.1387@uunet.uu.net> <1991Jun26.221821.134@cmkrnl.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun18.024342.1387@uunet.uu.net>, asp@uunet.uu.net 
(Andrew Partan) writes:
> going to cost something like $150,000- plus.
> Instead what we are doing is working on rewritting uucp to make it run
> across multiple machines.  This is not an easy task.  [...]

What would break if you simply NFS or RFS mount your main machine's
/usr/spool into some other machines setting up the passwd, Systems,
Permissions, etc. to be identical or symlinks?  I suppose the device
names for the tty lines should all be unique. Then just set up the
uucp's to lie about the machine name so it all pretends to be one
machine, and only run uuxqt on the main system.  I'm pretty sure
this would work reliably using RFS, and the only thing NFS might
mess up would be creating the LCK..machine lockfiles.
Anyway it's time to set up a satellite broadcast of the news and
reserve the modems for inbound traffic and mail.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us