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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Problems with NNTP on Sun network
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Date: 6 May 88 14:01:53 GMT
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igb@cs.bham.ac.uk says...
   nntpd starts up OK, and the mini-inews reports success.  But nothing
   happens --- nothing goes in to news' log or errlog.  The NNTP log
   contains details of the call and its "successful" posting.  I hacked
   inews to redirect its "DEBUG" output to a file --- according to this
   inews never even calls history!  Files of zero-length called L<msg-id>
   are left in /tmp on the server.

You probably haven't gotten around to playing symlink games with the
real inews and the NNTP inews.  That is, your Sun server's
/usr.MC68020 no doubt contains a local inews so that it can do real
posting; as mounted on a client 3/50, that inews is useless, as it
will attempt to do things to files residing read-only on the server.
What we have resorted to is a game like this: on the server, make
/usr/lib/news/inews a symlink to /private/usr/lib/news/inews; then on
the server, put the real inews in /private/..., and on the clients put
the NNTP inews in /private/...  It works quite well, once you complete
the lie about what lives where.

--Karl