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From: jonab@SDC-CAMARILLO.ARPA.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sharing news across NFS
Message-ID: <341@SDC-CAMARILLO.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 11:59:43 EST
Article-I.D.: SDC-CAMA.341
Posted: Mon Feb 23 11:59:43 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Feb-87 22:11:39 EST
References: <185@quacky.mips.UUCP>
Reply-To: jonab@SDC-CAMARILLO.ARPA (Jonathan P. Biggar)
Organization: SDC R+D Distributed Architectures, Camarillo, CA
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In article <185@quacky.mips.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>I have implemented this as follows:
>
>	1. /usr/spool/news is shared
>	2. /usr/new/lib/news is shared, but seq and sys are symbolic
>	   links to files in /usr/new/lib/news.local
>	3. Only the machine that has the news disks actually gets
>	   news from outside.
>
>Is there any way for me to change it so that inews doesn't update the
>active file? That is, without changing all of the various news posting
>commands, can I tell inews to just send the news to rnews@mips without
>saving a local copy?
>

Here is what I did with our collection of Suns:

I set up /usr/spool/news and /usr/lib/news to be shared via nfs, but I
don't define HIDDENNET.  Instead, I replace /usr/lib/news/inews with the
following shell script:

#!/bin/sh
if [ `hostname` = sdcjove ]; then
	/usr/lib/news/inews.real "$@"
else
	rsh sdcjove /usr/lib/news/inews.real "$@"
fi

Where sdcjove is the name of my main news machine.  All news is forwarded
to sdcjove where it is posted normally.

Jon Biggar
sdcrdcf!jonab
jonab@CAM.UNISYS.COM