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From: alan@numm.nu.oz (Alan Hargreaves)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: minor C news hassle
Keywords: build, $NEWSCTL/bin/config, no write access to lock
Message-ID: <1989Jul17.045108.8677@numm.nu.oz>
Date: 17 Jul 89 04:51:08 GMT
Reply-To: alan@numm.nu.oz (Alan Hargreaves)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Newcastle, Oz
Lines: 27

I wouldn't really call this a bug, more of a minor hassle
that took me a few days to track down. I just applied the 7-Jul-89
patch and had finished building and installing it. (An important
aside, we have another directory to add to the search path, ie /local).

The Problem:

relaynews had no write access to $NEWSCTL to create a lock file.

The Source of the problem:

$NEWSPATH in $NEWSCTL/bin/config differed to what was compiled into
config.o in libcnews.a. I had originally appended /local to $NEWSPATH.
When I rebuilt and installed it I prepended it. The installation
then said "Oh, there is already a $NEWSCTL/bin/config. I wont rewrite
it". Thus when setdirs() was called from relaynews, it said "Oh, NEWSPATH
isn't what I expected, call unprivileged() and run thus".

So, make sure that libcnews/Makefile and $NEWSCTL/bin/config agree
about what the environment vars should be.

alan.
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