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Subject: Re: posting news from systems in a LAN environment
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 08:45:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 08:45:22 1987
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In-reply-to: whna@cgch.UUCP's message of 30 Oct 87 09:47:07 GMT

whna@cgch.UUCP writes:
   We are looking for a transparent (and reliably working) solution for
   posting news from every system (workstation or file server) in a LAN.
   ...
   Any ideas how we could arrange for postnews (and other inews mechanisms)
   from each system without changing the inews' or other sources?

Sure thing: Install the fake NNTP inews on the clients which NFS-mount
/usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news.  We do it here, and it's really
very nice.  Existence proof: I'm sitting in front of a Sun3,
NFS-served by a nice fast Pyramid 98x upstairs, reading news in GNU
Emacs' rnews mode, writing this in a *post-news* buffer, which will
(call-process-region "inews" "-h") when I type C-c C-c.

Detail:
[1] Have NFS clients mount /usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news from the
    NFS server.
[2] Install in.nntpd on the NFS server in order to react to
    NNTP-posting requests from the clients.
[3] mkdir /usr/lib/newsbin everywhere, both server and clients.
[4] On the NFS server, put inews in /usr/lib/newsbin and symlink
    /usr/lib/news/inews to /usr/lib/newsbin/inews.
[5] On the NFS clients, put the NNTP inews in /usr/lib/newsbin.

You're done.  Note that local interpretations of the nature of the
symlink originating at /usr/lib/news/inews and what's really there in
the respective systems' /usr/lib/newsbin will take care of itself.
-=-
Karl