AU/X as a mail/news machine?

[Paul Campbell]

In article <10555 at claris.com> peirce at claris.com (Michael Peirce) writes:
>I figure I can get enough from selling the Unix-PC to buy an extra 80MEG disk
>for the Mac where AU/X can live.  I have a few questions -
>Are people successfully running usenet (UUCP & News) on AU/X?

	Yes, taniwha (the A/UX system I'm running on) runs mail and news,
	I also feed another A/UX system.

>Is there enough disk for this?  (I've only got a 40 Meg disk on the Unix-PC
>and this isn't even full all the time).  I wouldn't mind removing parts
>of the distribution (like GNU Emacs, etc).

	I run an 80Mb system disk and a 60Mb spool disk, I keep about 4 days
	of news around - it seems to take about 3000 blocks 15Mb - look at 
	the sizes of the spool directories on your current system. You can
	easily remove sources and/or the manual pages. You can also build a
	system without the autorecovery partitions (only recomended if you
	have another form of backup and think you know what you are doing).

>Are there any other gotcha's when running AU/X as a part-time usenet machine
>(I do plan on using the Mac/OS during the day...)?

	You should get your news feeder to not spool news to you during the
	day (otherwise their spool directories will runneth over).


	Paul Campbell
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