Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ptsfa!lll-lcc!styx!ames!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!earle From: earle@smeagol.UUCP Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Sharing news across NFS Message-ID: <921@smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 03:23:38 EST Article-I.D.: smeagol.921 Posted: Wed Mar 4 03:23:38 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 21:54:07 EST References: <185@quacky.mips.UUCP> Sender: news@smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 59 Summary: Works fine for me here, and I *have* HIDDENNET defined [I emailed this to David Elliot, but after seeing subsequent repsonses, thought perhaps others might find it instructive ...] I am using NFS to share Netnews here on my Sun net (currently 10 machines are sharing news, with an 11th due up shortly). I don't understand what the problem is; I am doing exactly what you want (I'm guessing!) to be doing, and I have no problems doing it ... My scheme is: (1) Gigantic users partition on my Eagle (/usr2), with most of that taken up by Netnews under /usr2/news. /usr2 is NFS mounted rw everywhere. (2) /usr/spool/news is a symlink on the news server (this machine, smeagol). I hardcoded /usr2/news into some of the Netnews config files to make things easier. Since I just got a Super Eagle in to add on to the existing Eagle, I will probably make a seperate /usr/spool/news partition, remake Netnews, and NFS mount that partition everywhere as well. (3) /usr/lib/news is NFS mounted everywhere, rw. Thus, access to inews. (4) /usr/local/bin NFS mounted everywhere, and I put the news reading/posting programs there (postnews, vnews, rnews, checknews, readnews). The ones that need to be elsewhere (on smeagol) for PATH reasons I made hard links to (like /usr/bin/rnews <-> /usr/local/bin/rnews) on the server. (5) I have my machine defined as `ME' in the sys file instead of `smeagol'. (6) I also have HIDDENNET defined. I may be overlooking something here, but this works just fine for me. Not that I post things very often, but I've posted from both smeagol and other machines and everything looks the same and it works OK ... (only difference is articles from my other machines get Message-ID's like <16231@othermachine.smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV>, not too horrible) Under 2.11, it seems that defining your system to be `ME' in sys instead of the newsfeed gateway, seems to automagically solve the old problem of the news wanting to see an entry for your non-news-gateway machine (that you are posting from) in `sys'. If you put one in there to `fix' that, then it tried to send the article back to you, because of the stupid dual purpose nature of `sys' (i.e. what & where can I post to/from, also what machines to send news to). As I said, using `ME' seems to solve this problem when posting from other machines in your net. I don't have to do anything with making `seq' and `sys' be symlinks; are you running 2.11? Doing things this way also keeps the non-news-gateway machine from updating /usr/spool/news and the active file. Summary: See what you are doing that is different to the above. If you are running 2.11, I think using `ME' instead of `mips' will solve your main problem (only problem?). -- Greg Earle UUCP: sdcrdcf!smeagol!earle; attmail!earle JPL ARPA: elroy!smeagol!earle@csvax.caltech.edu AT&T: +1 818 354 4034 earle@jplpub1.jpl.nasa.gov (For the daring) Is this an out-take from the ``BRADY BUNCH''?