Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!tygra!cat From: cat@tygra.ddmi.com (CAT-TALK Maint. Account) Newsgroups: mi.misc,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Problems with Patch and C News Message-ID: <342@tygra.ddmi.com> Date: 7 Aug 90 03:18:22 GMT References: <340@tygra.ddmi.com> Reply-To: cat@tygra.UUCP (CAT-TALK Maint. Account) Followup-To: mi.misc Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing Network, Detroit, MI Lines: 22 In article mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: } }As I understand the 'build' script, it will install the setnewsids }program *only* if you tell it that setuid(geteuid()) won't work on }your system. If you lie to build and say it works when it doesn't, }then it won't get installed and relaynews will die when it tries to }execute it. } That must have been it. While we're on the subject of C-News, do you know if there is a way to enable/disable automatic rmgroups and newgroups. I guess I'm too lazy to look through all the source code and it didn't seem to be in the obvious places (NEWSBIN/ctl/rmgroup and newgroup scripts). I'm also getting problems with people running postnews (a Bourne Shell Script) from csh. For some reason, csh doesn't see the "# !/bin/sh" in the file and tries to execute the script itself, which fails with a "variable syntax" error (Bourne Shell and csh use different variable syntax). This seems to occur intermittantly in Xenix.