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From: mikel@flmis06.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: NFS news - problem ??
Message-ID: <271@flmis06.ATT.COM>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 02:42:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: flmis06.271
Posted: Mon Sep 28 02:42:43 1987
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> 	Is there any reason why one system, that supports spooled
> news files, can't export /usr/spool/news to other systems under
> NFS ? Since nothing would be changed, it seems to be that the only
> hacks needed would be to postnews, rather than vnews. Have I overlooked
> something obvious ? 

We do this over RFS. The idea is simple, and you don't really need hacks
into any of the software. The only problem arrises when you export
/usr/lib/news and the remote system doesn't see itself in the sys file
when you post something.

This is easily overcome by having a "fake" NEWSLIB directory that gets
exported, where everything is liked back to the real one, except for
the sys file, which has a whole bunch of dummy entries for the remote
systems to forward their stuff to the gateway, and not keep it for
themselvs.

So if I have systems aa, ab, ac, ad ... that read news over RFS from
system codas, the sys file should look like this:

aa:none
ab:none
ac:none
ad:none
codas:all:L:/usr/bin/uux - codas!rnews

Which will feed it back to the net...

Note that "none" is just a dummy which doesn't really mean anything unless
you have a newsgroup or distribution that matches that. 
-- 
				Mikel Manitius @ AT&T Network Operations
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