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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken)
Subject: Re: 386BSD UUCP and News
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 10:39:05 GMT
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root@woody.apana.org.au (Ernie Elu) writes:
>I actually had c-news runnning for a while until for some unknown reason my
>disklabel info wiped itself and I had to re-install BSD. It took a fair few
>little patches to stop it using functions that it insisted on calling rather
>than the ones you have in your libraries. I did not want to go through all
>the patching again, so I thought I would try inn1.3 instead. It was a simple
>exercise to get it compiled. The only trick is it wants a fully operational
>DNS so I had to configure named first. All in all it took me about a quarter
>of the time that it takes to get c-news up and inn1.3 is far more interesting.
Huh? What made you think that INN needs more than a working gethostby{name,addr}
and the like?
I've INN running on my UUCP-only system, and everything needed was a correct
entry in my /etc/hosts
Hannes
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Hans-Christoph Deeken (deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
TH Darmstadt, Germany