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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:38:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNEWS on STABLE anyone ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.981230183730.304A-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812301852000.330-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Steve Hovey wrote:
> 
> > When we went up in INN it puked too - I run dnews on a 2.2.5, or 2.2.7 - I
> > forget which.. Runs like a charm!
> 
> 	What sort of problems did both/either of you see with INN 2.x?

Each new release saw less news come in.. with dnews my incoming went up by
several orders of magnitude.. Also, with the inn cyclic, I kept having
where you would see the header, go to click it up, and have it tell you it
wasnt there any more.. which I figured was the MMAP issue.. I tried and
tried to get INN to not use MMAP anyplace, to no avail.

> 
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Just wondering if anyone out there is using DNEWS on a STABLE box out
> > > there. If so, how do you like it ?  How stable is it compared to INN 2.x ?
> > > We tried to migrate to INN 2.x from 1.7.x, but ran into a few bugs in the
> > > CNFS that prevented us from deploying it into production.  The price seems
> > > decent, and the configuration seems a little easier so I might even be able
> > > to pass it onto some of the more junior techs.  We have a few UUCP partial
> > > feeds still, but I can parse that off onto another INN box so I all the
> > > DNEWS thingy will be doing is taking a full feed and 2 partial feeds and
> > > our one big nnrpd server.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	---Mike
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel 01.519.651.3400
> > > Network Administrator,     			  noc@sentex.net
> > > Sentex Communications                 		  www.sentex.net
> > > Cambridge, Ontario Canada
> > > 
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> 
> Marc G. Fournier                                
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> 
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