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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!e40-008-11.MIT.EDU!vikki From: vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) Subject: Anyone w/386bsd NNTP server?? Message-ID: <1992Nov11.210817.2593@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: e40-008-11.mit.edu Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:08:17 GMT Lines: 19 Hi Everyone: Is there anyone out there who is using their 386bsd box as an NNTP server? I have been trying to do this for awhile now but am not having a lot of success. I can get the server stuff for the nntp.1.5.11 distrib to build but it doesn't work correctly. The first problem that it seems to be having is with it's checking of available disk space before allowing a client to use the server. I get errors on the console from nntpd saying that it is failing to open /dev/wd0a. If I try to cat wd0a, I get a device busy error. However, I can cat /dev/rwd0a ok. Do I need to hack the server to read /dev/rwd0a? I think I can but I don't know if /dev/rwd0a will give the nntpd space checking code information in the correct format. If there is anyone who has already gone through this and triumphed, I'd be indebted to you for any tips or diffs :-) Thanks for any help that anyone can provide! -John jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu or vikki@athena.mit.edu