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From: scott@helium.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Administering a News system part time
Message-ID: <223@helium.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 12:56:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 12:56:56 1987
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References: <273@arnold.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@helium.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Organization: City of Turlock, CA
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Keywords: administrate questions hours

In article <273@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes:
>Like I said, the hardware will be a Convergent Technologies Megaframe running
>CTIX, with about 80meg of disk space (probably 20-40meg free), and a 1200 baud

Well, I run in even tighter space, so I can throw in a couple of relevant
comments.  Your biggest day-to-day consideration is going to be disk space.
If you feed anyone else, you need to be *very* careful about your space - it
may be fine for your own use, but once/day compressed batches can really mess
things up.

>I recognize the following duties:
>
>4.	Monitor nightly newsfeeds, make sure everything ran smoothly, enough
>	disk space, etc.

Probably the most important thing.  Most days, I don't even care what the
numbers are.  If you can get the Watcher program that was recently posted,
get it and use it.  I use it to monitor both total free space and the space
used by the news directory tree.

I actually don't *specifically* monitor the news feeds, but I do read news
first thing in the morning, and so I'm aware that way of the news status.

>That's about all I can think of.  I have no idea how much time all of this
>is going to take, but I'll take a stab at about 2 hours a day?

On the two little systems that I run, 2 hours/day would more than cover
*everything* - running news, installing patches, maintaining the pathalias
database, etc.  If you don't already, you'll want to read comp.sources.unix
and news.*, which will tend to smooth out your time usage.

>Dave Arnold
               \scott
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