On 1 Jul 2000, Julian Assange wrote: > Graeme Hinchliffe <graeme@u-net.net> writes: > > > Hiya > > I am currently charged with the duty of setting up nntp cache to > > try and offload some of the work from our primary news server. Whilst the > > drives are being formated and the machine is installing Solaris, I have > > setup nntpcache on my desktop PC so I can get a feel for it, and have a > > play :) > > > > However I am having problems running newshound... I have copied > > the newshound.conf file into /etc and when I come to run the program > > itself I just get the responce of : > > > > Problem with configuration file /etc/newshound.conf > > > > I have compiled the program into /opt/nntpcache > > > > can anyone suggest why this is happening? > > It's probably not worth using newshound if you have a heavily loaded server, > as groups will be read with sufficient frequency such that delays in pulling > in news articles will not be significant for individual users. > True, but all the same I would like to be able to use the program, the server is more heavily loaded with constant incomming feed, so we are looking at using nntpcache to take clients off the news server all together, so that in future we might be able to get rid of our news server all together and just feed directly from our Main news feed but only the groups that are being used. Our main consern at present is the constant 8Mb/s of bandwidth that server is using and most of this is on wasted data that no-one looks at, we want to just pull up the groups that are being used, yet provide a full newsfeed. Newshound and nntpcache seem the best solution at present. If anyone can help It'd be ace... plus I hate niggly likkle things not working 100% Thanks for your responce Graeme
