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From: kreed@telesys.cts.com (Kevin W. Reed)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn,news.software.b
Subject: Fix for SCO posting with nnpost to cnews
Summary: Fixes cnews so that nn can post, forward and mail
Keywords: nnpost nn cnews posting
Message-ID: <1990May29.224134.6404@telesys.cts.com>
Date: 29 May 90 22:41:34 GMT
Organization: TeleSys Development Systems, San Diego, CA
Lines: 84

The following is how I fixed my posting problems using nn 6.4.3 and Cnews.

History:

SCO Xenix 386 2.3.2

Could not post, mail or forward using nn 6.4.3 on a Cnews system.  Actually
the article could be posted but the users name would be missing.  Mail and
forwarding did not work at all.

Cnews 'postnews' work without any problems.

Solution:

It seems that for some reason, when inews is called from nn it is no longer
attached to a terminal (?) and since this is so, who am i fails.  When called
from postnews it works ok.

What I did (with the help of Geoff Collyer as he pointed out what was wanted),
I removed the section that didn't work with a simple USER=`/usr/bin/logname'
and Wala.... it works...

I still don't know what the ypmatch is, but it evidently doesn't get that
far...

Below is a diff file for the change.

BTW: I liked the comment in anne.jones :-)
# dig up user's name (a simple task, you'd think, but you'd be wrong)

Thanks for the help guys...

<<this message was posted with nnpost>>

*** anne.jones	Tue May 29 14:10:40 1990
--- anne.jones.new	Tue May 29 14:10:18 1990
***************
*** 28,58
  # badsites="pucc.bitnet!"		# tailor, syntax is "host1!host2!...host3!"
  host="$mailname"
  
! # dig up user's name (a simple task, you'd think, but you'd be wrong)
! case "$LOGNAME" in
! "")
! 	# "who am i" on many Unixes does "ttyname(0)" and "getpwuid(getuid())"
! 	# if that fails - it can be confused by empty utmp entries (per jerqs);
! 	# "who am i </dev/null" yields your userid, not your login name.
! 	# "tty" does "ttyname(0)"; also fallible.
! 	# So, emulate a slightly-modified V7 getlogin(3) (actually ttyslot(3)):
! 	# look for tty on /dev/tty, stdin, stdout, stderr (actually via ttyname(3)).
! 	for fd in 3 0 1 2			# 3 is /dev/tty on V8
! 	do
! 		if test -t $fd; then
! 			case "$USER" in
! 			"")	USER="`who am i <&$fd |
! 				    sed -e 's/[	 ].*//' -e '/!/s/^.*!//' `" ;;
! 			esac
! 		fi
! 	done
! 	case "$USER" in
! 	"")	USER="`who am i </dev/null |	# last resort: use userid
! 			sed -e 's/[	 ].*//' -e '/!/s/^.*!//' `" ;;
! 	esac
! 	;;
! *)	USER="$LOGNAME" ;;
! esac
  case "$NAME" in
  "")
  	if test -s $HOME/.name; then

--- 28,35 -----
  # badsites="pucc.bitnet!"		# tailor, syntax is "host1!host2!...host3!"
  host="$mailname"
  
! USER=`/usr/bin/logname`
! 
  case "$NAME" in
  "")
  	if test -s $HOME/.name; then

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