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From: liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: spurious inews errors
Message-ID: <1990Jan15.210445.15025@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 15 Jan 90 21:04:45 GMT
References: <1990Jan4.204831.2326@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> <1990Jan7.044249.22248@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:

>liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell) writes:

>>One of my users keeps getting errors when posting to a moderated group.


>>	/local/bin/inews: mailing your article to
>>		elroy!ames!comp-sys-ibm-pc-digest

>>	Your response has been saved in ~/dead.letter

>If your user is using the `nn' news reader, the problem is that the
>`aux' script checks both the return value from inews and its standard
>error output, and assumes an error has occured if either the return
>value is non-zero or there is error output.  I fixed `aux' to only
>check the return value.  It might be better to display the output
>somehow.

Thanks -- that was the problem.  I decided to use a "grep -v 'inews:
mailing your article'" in aux to filter the output from inewws.  That
prevents the inews message from ever reaching the user, but if some
other (real) problem occurs, another message would.  I'm not sure this
is the best solution either...
-- 
		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us
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