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From: elw@netx.com (Edwin Wiles)
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Subject: Re: Help with NNTP Client and RRN?
Keywords: nntp rrn help
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Date: 9 Oct 90 02:02:18 GMT
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Thanks Anyway!  But I finally figured it out.

We have EXCELAN on our Xenix Sys V 386 2.3.2.

There were two problems with the common/clientlib.c
code for EXCELAN tcp/ip.

1) No allowance had been made for the fact that "rhost" under EXCELAN
expects the machine name it's given to be a "char **", not just a "char *".
This, possibly along with several other mixed-type problems, is apparently
what lead to the attempt at invoking as root causing a segmentation violation.

2) The Excelan code in common/clientlib.c made use of the "rresvport"
call, which is restricted to superuser use only.  There is a way to
achieve much the same effect by using "socket" which is not restricted
to superuser.

If anyone is interested, I'll send along my "common/clientlib.c" file.

					Thanks Anyway!
							Edwin.