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From: ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Configuration question
Message-ID: <2021@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Date: 22 Feb 90 04:13:37 GMT
References: <2006@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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> Everything works fine, except that the inews on this 3/50 complains
> that it can't run uux -- which is fine because it doesn't need uux,

I solved the problem.  Thanks to Sandy Bryant and Joe Weening who both
suspected the problem was in my sys file.  Once put on the right
track, I experimented a little and determined the exact problem and
solution.

The problem occurred because:

	a) my sys file had the local (i.e. server) hostname hardcoded.

	b) some news readers/posters on the client machines required
	   that their hostname also be listed in the sys file, so I
	   added those as well.

As a consequence the server machine would try to send any new news to
those clients listed in the sys file (via the default mechanism -- uux).

The solution is that instead of hardcoding the local hostname in the
sys file, one should use "ME" -- which each machine (server and
clients) will interpret correctly as itself, keeping everyone happy.
In other words, the sys file should contain one line for each incoming
or outgoing feed, plus the line: ME:all

-Ittai