Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems setting up CNews.
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.175218.22934@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul31.183057.21455@hod.uit.no>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 17:52:18 GMT

In article <1990Jul31.183057.21455@hod.uit.no> arneny@nic.uit.no writes:
>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.

Looks like, somehow, either your system does not set the HOME environment
variable or it is not getting to inews.  (Could it be, perhaps, that your
system is changing HOME for the login shell but is not using `export' to
pass those changes along to things invoked by the login shell?)

Try the following:

	echo 'echo $HOME' >foo
	chmod +x foo
	foo
	export HOME
	foo

If the first invocation of "foo" doesn't print the proper home directory,
your system isn't setting HOME.  If the first and second differ, your
system isn't exporting the setting.

>ME:test::
>machineB:test:f:

Try changing that second `test' to `test/all'.  *Both* newsgroup *and*
distribution must match for an article to be transmitted, and the default
distribution is `world'.
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