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From: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Bnews 2.11 and SCO Unix
Keywords: HELP!!
Message-ID: <1990Dec04.005609.13257@jadpc.cts.com>
Date: 4 Dec 90 00:56:09 GMT
References: <108@avatar.avatar.com>
Organization: Network Engineering Technologies
Lines: 32

In article <108@avatar.avatar.com> kory@avatar.avatar.com (Kory Hamzeh) writes:
>I'm trying to build BNEWS 2.11 under SCO Unix 3.2.2 and its not going well.
>I can't even get all of the programs to build. I tried using the Xenix 
>executables, but when I try to post news, inews complains with:
>
>	inews: Directory permission problem in /tmp
>
>This is very frustrating, I must have spent about 8 hours to far.
>
>If anyone has built BNEWS 2.11 under SCO unix, can you please send me
>you Localize.sh/defs.h/Makefile/etc.. ?
>
>I would really appreciate it.
>
>Thanks,
>--kory
>
>
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>Kory Hamzeh             UUCP: avatar!kory or ..!uunet!avatar!kory
>                    INTERNET: kory@avatar.com 

The problem is NOT with Bnews.  It is with SCO security.

I fixed it by putting all news on the Interactive machine.

Jim
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