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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problems setting up CNews.
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.160632.20290@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 1 Aug 90 16:06:32 GMT
References: <1990Jul31.183057.21455@hod.uit.no>
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In-Reply-To: arneny@nic.uit.no (Arne Nylund)

In article <1990Jul31.183057.21455@hod.uit.no>, arneny@nic (Arne Nylund) writes:
| 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.

Cnews is picky about distributions (sez someone who found out the hard
way).  An article without a distribution has a distribution of
"world".  Since "world" is not mentioned in your list above for
machineB, the article got deposited in just the local spool with no
relay happening.

Either: (a) add "Distribution: test" to your article, or (b) ",world"
to your machineB description.

Just another Cnews admin,
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