unbatcher

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In article <387 at Shasta.ARPA> mogul at su-gregorio.arpa writes:
>From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul at su-gregorio.arpa>
>
>I think I know why the unbatcher hangs [Note: consequences of this is
>that after a few hours, there are so many unbatchers running that the
>"news" user is not allowed to run any more processes.  The way "rcp"
>works is to cause a shell to be exec'ed at the destination end, the
>shell forks a copy of "rcp", and apparently hangs at that point
>because the system won't allow "news" to fork any more processes.
>I suspect the shell either doesn't check the return from "fork()",
>or more likely is busy-waiting until fork() works.  
>-Jeff

	It seems you guys are etherneted together ('rcp').

	You talk about NFS and mounting /usr/spool/news on all your machines.

	Why not use NNTP (Network News Transmission Protocol) ?
	This protocol allows you to run rn on a remote machine, which gets
	each article and other files it needs (active) as required.  To the
	user on the remote machine, it appears as if the news is local, albeit
	somewhat delayed, although not noticible.  Certainly this would increase 
	the utilization of your ethernet, but only as much as NFS.

	It is available anonymous ftp from bezerkely, called nntp.tar

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