Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!apple!mrspoc!kayvan From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: C News on Xenix problems gone Message-ID: Date: 14 Jul 89 21:19:16 GMT Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) Organization: Transact Software, Inc. Lines: 48 I'd like to thank those people (and especially Geoff and Henry) who responded to my plea for help. The problems all turned out to be rather minor configuration issues that I had not been aware of. The errlog messages were caused by a line in my sys file that read something like this: localstuff: all/!ihave,!sendme,!to.coherent.ctl,!to.mrspoc.ctl:L:mail usenet This meant that the batcher, when attempting to batch the ihave/sendme messages, would sometimes get the "no.such.article!" filename back, would go to send it off and "mail usenet" would be invoked with no input. This caused mail to complain and thus the errlog messages. The second problem, the error status returns from coherent (our ihave/sendme site) was caused by my forgetting to pu tthe appropriate lines in the batchparms file for ihave/sendme batching. So what was happening was that the default "batcher compcun viauux" line was getting invoked. Once I got our ihave/sendme set up with the suggested splitting of ihave, sendme, and real spooling to coherent (as per the distributed examples), I ran into the following problem: The spool directory, "coherent.sendme" got truncated (14 char limit) to "coherent.sendm". This meant that the batcher would miss the batchparms line unless it also read "coherent.sendm". I opted to rename the directories coherent.ih and coherent.sm. This could also cause the batchsm script to post messages to to.coherent.sendm rather than to to.coherent (as intended). The one minor poblem was that the ihave and sendme messages at this point where posted to to.coherent.ih and to.coherent.sm, this I found by looking at the batchih and batchsm scripts. I simply put site-specific copies of these scripts in the site spool directories (coherent.sm and coherent.ih) which posted the ihave/sendme messages to to.coherent.ctl (as was happening under B News 2.11). Once I got the hang of it (by reading more of the scripts and looking at the handful of configuration files) my C News site now runs perfectly smoothly! Thanks!!! ---Kayvan -- Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Mountain View, CA (415) 961-6112 Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan