Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: problem installing bnews-2.11
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.184915.3382@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6501@dime.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 18:49:15 GMT

In article <6501@dime.cs.umass.edu> williams@cs.umass.edu writes:
>	rnews
>execution permission denied to aai!root
>
>Do anyone have any idea what the problem is?  Someone at uunet said it
>looked like uuxqt can't find rnews on my system but I don't see why
>that would be...

Looks to me like the problem is not rnews being unfindable, but rnews
not being in the list of legal commands for execution by uuxqt.  For
security reasons, uuxqt will execute only certain commands.  In very
old uucp implementations, the list was compiled in.  Nowadays it is
usually specified in a control file of some kind.  You need to look
hard at exactly how your uucp specifies that list -- I'm not up on all
the variations -- and revise the list to include rnews.

>... This is our first news install.  Maybe we should try C 
>news instead?  RTU is a SYSV clone though.

C News runs fine under System V, although there are occasional problems
because "System V" is a family of vaguely-related systems, not a single
system, and things like the output format of "df" change a lot.  One
thing that could be a problem with C News for you, though, is that its
current documentation probably isn't sufficient for a novice administrator.
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