Getting NN to read from a NFS Mounted News Volume

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2 total messages Started by Russell Noble Mon, 20 Jun 1994 14:33

#172

Author: Russell Noble
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 14:33

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As the heading says, I am trying te get our nn news reader to read a news 
volume NFS mounted from a Sun server.  I can NFS mount the drive OK but the 
message "Database magic number mismatch" is displayed when I try nn.  I assume 
this is because the Sun and PC have different endian?  Does anyone know if nn 
can be compiled to get around this problem??

Cheers and thanks,
                  Russell Noble.


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Re: Getting NN to read from a NFS Mounted News Volume

#173

Author: Daniel Carosone
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 07:22

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r.noble@uow.edu.au (Russell Noble) writes:

>As the heading says, I am trying te get our nn news reader to read a news 
>volume NFS mounted from a Sun server.  I can NFS mount the drive OK but the 
>message "Database magic number mismatch" is displayed when I try nn.  I assume 
>this is because the Sun and PC have different endian?  Does anyone know if nn 
>can be compiled to get around this problem??

When you build nn, you have the option of it building the nnmaster
database in native or network/portable byte order and alignment. Ask
whoever runs the nnmaster on your news server if they defined (I
think) NETWORK_DATABASE in the config.h for nn.

Note that your config must also be set up to use the same option.

--
Dan.

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