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From: leo@aai.UUCP (Leo Pinard)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: problem installing bnews-2.11
Message-ID: <187@aai.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 06:36:59 GMT
References: <6501@dime.cs.umass.edu>
Reply-To: leo@aai.UUCP (Leo Pinard)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amerinex Artificial Intelligence, Amherst MA
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In article <6501@dime.cs.umass.edu> williams@cs.umass.edu writes:
>I am trying get news running at our site.  The bnews 2.11 software was
>copied from uunet a couple of months ago. 
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>Copy of mail received after a recent attempt:
>
>From uucp Mon Nov  6 18:47:04 EST 1989 remote from aai
>remote execution	[uucp job uunetdekS3 (11/6-18:47:03)]
>	rnews
>execution permission denied to aai!root
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Problem solved!  It turned out that RTU uses a Permissions file like BNU.
Making the appropriate entries in this file got things going.
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Leo Pinard	leo@aai.uucp