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From: igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten <BattenIG>)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Problems with NNTP on Sun network
Message-ID: <262@james.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: 13 May 88 15:01:09 GMT
References: <251@james.cs.bham.ac.uk> <12596@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <257@bhamcs.UUCP> <12931@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <12931@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>    What I did is put the nntp-ified inews in lib/inews and the genuine
>    2.11.14 inews in lib/local/inews.  When I compiled nntpd I told it that
>    inews was in lib/local/inews.
> 
> What do you do about posting from the server machine?  Did you compile
> all your other news software so as to know that the real inews is in
> lib/local/inews?

Few postings happen on the local machine.  rmail is a link to
lib/local/inews and I'm prepared to carry the loopback overhead if
posting does happen: it's a 3/180S with no terminals connected!

I still haven't fixed the darn thing though!



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ian

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