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From: arneny@nic.uit.no (Arne Nylund)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Problems setting up CNews.
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Date: 31 Jul 90 18:30:57 GMT
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I'm trying to install CNews on two 386-machines which both run Interactive
Unix (386/ix). My plan is both to use CNews as a conference system locally on
each machine, and to have some common conferences between the two machines. 
In the latter case, articles are transfered by UUCP.

Locally it seems that CNews is working OK, except two things:

1) the .signature file is always taken from / (root), and not from the 
users home directory.
2) dead.article is always written to /, and never to the users home 
directory.

Does anybody know what may be wrong???

In addition, I'm not able to setup CNews to exchange articles between the two 
machines. I have created a conference named "test" on machine A. All articles
in this conference should be sent to machine B. The sys-file has the following
lines

ME:test::
machineB:test:f:

which, to my knowledge, should indicate that all articles in "test" should be
queued up for transmission to machine B by appending article names and sizes
under NEWSARTS/out.going/machineB. When I submit an article, it is feed to 
inews which in turn feeds it to relaynews. Locally the article ends up 
under NEWSARTS/test, but nothing is  written to the other directory. 
Therefore, there is nothing to process for sendbatches.

What am I doing wrong? I don't know the exact function of the main CNews
components, so any hints in this direction or refrences to appropriate
literature will be helpful.

Arne