From: COMBSTM@APPSTATE.EDU (*Terry M. Combs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: INN on ULTRIX 4.2
Date: 9 Oct 1992 12:54:54 GMT
Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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Hello network world!
I have implemented INN on the ULTRIX RISC 4.2 system.
Below is a message I sent to the most helpful R. $alz - I am posting so someone
else who has problems can perhaps have a past message to refer to.

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From:	IN%"combstm@lester.appstate.edu"  9-OCT-1992 08:36:56.48
To:	IN%"combstm@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU"
CC:	
Subj:	Message to R. Salz concerning INN


In a message from Rich Salz:
>>The implementation of INN here looks pretty good except for the syslog stuff
>>and the inability of INND to properly distinguish between NEWSFEEDS and
>>CLIENTS.  Also posting thru nnrpd does not make it to the usenet feed.

>I also am not sure what you mean about properly disintgiush.  INN is the
>only NNTP software that does distinguish -- if a site isn't an INND feed
>then it is a client.  Perhaps you are saying that you have machines that
>need to do both IHAVE and POST commands?

THE PROBLEM ABOVE WAS SOLELY A USER ERROR - UPDATING IN /SITE AND FAILING TO
UPDATE THE TARGET AREA FOR STORING THE CONFIG FILES DOES NOT WORK.

>
>As for local postings not making it out, look at your newsfeeds file.  Are
>you sure that the subscription for the downstream sites sends them the
>articles that you post.  Also don't get confused by buffering -- run innd
>with -d and watch what happens.
>

Local postings didn't make it out because of a problem in defining the simple
file method - file the names/ids and xmit them later.  Also no articles were
filed because I had CNEWS experience and the simplicity of INN did not become
apparent until I read/reread the doc about the fields in the newsfeeds file.
Defining the groups to receive using wildcards was a good idea - cuts down on
the size of the "sys" file...

>I don't know what you mean about the syslog stuff.  
. (deleted comment)
>The new syslogd reads a syslog.conf file, which is by default /etc/syslog.conf
>

I bit the bullet and installed syslog - works like a top using the syslog.conf
file you sent with the installation.  I had mixed the syslog.conf file sent
with Ultrix with the SYSLOG daemon supplied with INN.  STUPID!!!!

>>I am installing INN and using the CNEWS files (including dbz).
>Again, I am confsued.  The only CNEWS file is dbz.  What are you talking
>about?

I am using the files from the CNEWS system like
active, active.old, history*, newsgroups, and the like.
I did not rebuild the active file - does INN keep both counts uptodate instead
of just the one?

>>value type declared inconsistently
>>    bzero   	llib-lc(708) :: inndcomm.c(226)
>This is a bug in your system header files; INN doesn't call bzero...

The bzero stuff is in the lint lib somehow incorporated in the void stuff.

Once again, I appreciate your time and trouble.
I am receiving 4 newsfeeds tonight and handing out several, so it is working.

Right now, expire is running.  When that finishes, I'm out of here...




- Terry Combs                              Appalachian State University
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