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From: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Cnews pathnames
Message-ID: <1990May30.165503.12772@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 30 May 90 16:55:03 GMT
Reply-To: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
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I am running BSD4.3 with Cnews patched thru April 1990.  I have several
nntp feeds via internet and just added some UUCP feeds.  The problem
I have encountered is that Cnews inserts "ucselx.sdsu.edu" into the path
for the UUCP feeds.  While this is fine for NNTP feeds, the UUCP feeds
don't recongise that "ucselx" is "ucselx.sdsu.edu" and send me back
the same articles with a modified path.  Then my machine has an attitude
attack and corrupts the active file and my history file.

I have changed my sys file entry from "ME:" to "ME/ucselx.sdsu.edu:",
in hopes of stopping these articles from my UUCP feeds.  I have also
asked them to put "ucselx/ucselx.sdsu.edu:" in their sys file entry for
me if they run Cnews.

Is there anything I am missing?  Any pointers or suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.


-- 
Ron Nash
San Diego State University
Internet:  nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu
UUCP:      ucsd!sdsu!ucselx!nash