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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: B/C News woes
Message-ID: <256A4010.5066@rpi.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 06:43:27 GMT
References: <1989Nov17.162448.22026@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
	<1989Nov21.140935.1224@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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Dave Sill:
> While I was checking news' mail, I noticed a bunch of messages of the
> form: 
> 
>    From ??? Fri Nov 17 10:44:00 1989
>    Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 10:43:55 EST
>    From: root

A root run news system even though news exists?  Or is it just a mail alias?

>    To: news
> 
>    ark1 relaynews `bad/627320593' failed, status 1
> 
> Another less-than-totally-helpful message.  I haven't been able to
> figure out what's wrong with these batches or how to get rid of them.
> Anyone else know?  Sometimes the status is 1005.

The only time I ever seen error codes from relaynews was when
$NEWSARTS/out.going/$TOHOST didn't exist as a directory for an
outbound NNTP feed.  I think this was returned as "16".  [If it's not
going to make the directory, could it at least give a little better
message about what problem it encountered?]

This is besides a couple of times I had to clear blockage because my
sys file was calling a script that called relaynews ... duh.  More on
that later.

The status information as known by relaynews is defined in
cnews/include/news.h.  The bits are OR'ed to provide the exit status,
I think, and since no status bit is one, nor could they really get up
to 1005, I am a little curious about the answer to this too.

Dave
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