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From: gww@beatnix.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sharing news across NFS
Message-ID: <285@elxsi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 12:53:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 12:53:08 1987
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Reply-To: gww@beatnix.UUCP (Gary Winiger)
Organization: ELXSI Super Computers, San Jose
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In article <185@quacky.mips.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>In an effort to test NFS, widen news availability, and save some disk space
>(our Super-Eagles are dying), I have set up some of our local machines
>to share news across NFS.

Maybe it's a good test of NFS, but are you aware of nntp/nntpd/rrn. It's a
fine way of having a single system with /usr/spool/news and allowing other
systems to read and submit news.  I've been using it at ELXSI for a number
of months and have been very happy with it.  It is available on the 4.3BSD
distribution in the user contributed software, or from Phil Lapsley
(phil@ucvbax.berkeley.edu, ...!ucbvax!phil).  Phil was going to make another
distribution over the holidays, but appearently didn't get it done.

There were a couple bugs in the 4.3 distribution that I've fixed and I've 
brought my copy of rrn up to date with the latest patches to rn.  Phil would
have the best copy, but I'd be happy to share my mods.  (I've already done
so to Phil).

Gary..
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