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From: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth, NO7K)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: NFS news - problem ?? -- really RFS news sharing
Message-ID: <539@nud.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 09:39:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: nud.539
Posted: Tue Sep 29 09:39:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 08:20:01 EDT
References: <271@flmis06.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth, NO7K)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az.
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In article <271@flmis06.ATT.COM> mikel@flmis06.ATT.COM (Mikel Manitius) writes:
->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.

We use the pseudo machine name "ME" in the sys file and advertise NEWSLIB
along with the database.  In fact, we put all the news related files into
a single directory hierarchy (/news) and then advertize the single resource.
As long as only one machine runs sendbatch, users on all machines can read
and post news without problems.  We now have a dozen machines here sharing
news through RFS.

-Dale