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From: white@unc.cs.unc.edu (Brian T. White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: news programs on Suns
Message-ID: <1920@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 15:48:07 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.1920
Posted: Fri Nov  6 15:48:07 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 19:42:47 EST
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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We have more than 50 Suns and are looking for a way to make news reading
and posting available on these machines.  We would like only a single
spool/news directory, which will reside on a VAX-11/780 running 4.3 with
NFS.   We are running Sun UNIX 3.3 on Sun-2s and Sun-3s.

We can make news reading available by simply mounting the VAX spool/news
on each sun using NFS.  We would like to know how other sites have
solved the posting and canceling problem.

We have located two calls to inews (one in postnews, one in rn for cancelling
news), which we can replace with rsh commands to the news server.
Are there any problems associated with this approach?  Do we need to
make other changes?

Is there a better solution to the problem?  

Someone mentioned a fake NNTP inews, but we've never heard of in.nntpd.
Could someone point us to information on that?

Thanks for any information.