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From: dce@mips.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sharing news across NFS
Message-ID: <190@quacky.mips.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 22:38:00 EST
Article-I.D.: quacky.190
Posted: Mon Feb 23 22:38:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Feb-87 22:29:58 EST
References: <185@quacky.mips.UUCP> <848@usc-oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 28

I'll try to clarify the situation a little.

I have 5 Mips M/500s that share news, but the main news feed is not one
of them. Here's a picture:

	prls <-> mips <-> {quacky,winchester,charlie,obiwan,klinger}

The news spool and library directories are all on quacky (mips is a
780 that isn't running NFS).

The problem I am having is that when news is posted from, for example,
obiwan, the news is immediately posted, writing to quacky's spool
directory and changing quacky's active file, and is sent to mips.
Mips turns around and sends the file to quacky, where it is rejected
because it is already in the news system. It isn't a big deal; it just
seems somewhat messy.

Someone mentioned that I should change inews on the 4 slave machines
to execute 'rsh mips inews ...' so that my 'Reply-To:' field would
say 'dce@mips.UUCP' instead of the dreaded 'dce@quacky.UUCP'. This
actually doesn't work, since the program that generates the 'Reply-To:'
field is Pnews, which hasn't been taught about HIDDENNET. If I use
postnews, no 'Reply-To:' is generated, and all other parts of the
header refer to mips!dce, except for the article ID number.
-- 
			David Elliott

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