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From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: Re: 386BSD UUCP and News
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 17:47:10 GMT
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In article <C3oz2z.HqA@austin.ibm.com> boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com () writes:
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>Has anyone got 386BSD operating as a News Server connected via UUCP (modem) with cnews?
>Is it stable enough to handle a few meg throughput a day and stay up? It seems
>a simple enough set-up but I haven't seen anyone mention it. Are there instructions?
>Is cnews ported? What is the price of tea in China?
>Thanks,
>Boyd
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>Standard Disclaimer: I don't speak for IBM. They don't speak for me.
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I have had this going since 0.1 (actually just before 0.1 came out.)
I routinely move more that 35 meg a day of news and mail; look in the
UUCP maps for "ponds." I both receive and forward news to other sites.
The news setup is trivial if you use bash instead of ash, you need to
get one emulation function out of the SysV library, because that function has
been deprecated in bsd4.3+, however, I bet newer versions of cnews than
what I have probably already handle this. [I'm running an *ancient* version
of Cnews.]
I have been wrestling with sendmail problems ever since I got started;
and about every other minute almost decide to chuck it for smail 2.5
(which I was running before) - but with 386bsd, I now have a network
of machines and would like for mail to work between all of them and
the "outside" uucp connection.
- Dave Rivers -
(rivers@ponds.uucp (home))
(sastdr@unx.sas.com (work))
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