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From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Would rn work on a read-only NFS news volume?
Summary: Could a machine with just rn installed read news over NFS?
Keywords: rn NFS news
Message-ID: <2367@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 05:29:17 GMT
Reply-To: skl@mtsg.ubc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Organization: Balliffe International, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Scenario:

Two Sun's connected by Ethernet, one with B news installed and it
exports its news volume *read-only* over NFS, the other has only rn
installed but can mount the news volume frm the first using NFS.
The second machine is not diskless, but it doesn't have a lot of
free space.

Question:

Is having *just* rn on the second machine sufficient to allow users
on it to *read* news?  (We don't need to worry about posting for now.)

Thanks in advance for your help.

...Sam
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Samuel Lam     {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,cs.ubc.ca}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl