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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Administering a News system part time
Message-ID: <1796@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 23:33:40 EST
Article-I.D.: ho95e.1796
Posted: Thu Oct 22 23:33:40 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 10:16:27 EST
References: <273@arnold.UUCP> <7540@e.ms.uky.edu> <560@nitrex.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46133-Bill.Stewart,2G218,x0705,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 46133, Holmdel, NJ
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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 modem.
	I spend less than 2 hours per week on news, but we have
	administrators who keep uucp happy and worry about disk space.
	Most of the time is in periodic hack attacks, when a new
	version comes out or when I update the pathalias maps.

UUCP:	We run Honey Danber UUCP from AT&T, which is *much* more
	reliable than old-uucp.  We don't run sendmail, so we lose the
	functionality but also the headaches.  Most of our uucp traffic
	comes over an AT&T Datakit packet network, which also makes
	uucp much cleaner.

Disk:	Get an extra disk!  The reduction in workload will more than
	pay for your time.  Remember that 24 MB/week will fill up disk
	fast, and your users will also want space.
	Make sure you use the same disk for news and /usr/spool.
	We take the approach that news is nice but expendable; if the
	disk fills up and I don't clean it up the other administrators
	expire stuff brutally.  If the disk gets corrupted, news
	articles generally won't get restored; only libraries.
	- Keep an archive of comp.sources.* and any other groups that
	are relevant to your work, and make sure the users know about it.
	This will reduce the effect of all 100 users saving nethack and
	compiling it themselves.  It's worth backing it up on tape
	periodically, since you probably can't keep it on disk for too long.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs