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From: schnoebe@convex.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
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Subject: Re: SCO Bnews, C News, and ihave/sendme woes
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Date: 19 Jan 91 01:17:25 GMT
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bent@lccinc.UUCP (Ben Taylor) writes in <339@lccinc.UUCP>:
-I've been fooling with this seriously for a week now, and really have not
-seen much light.  I am using the suggestions for batchparms, sys, and 
-the patch to batchsplit.
-
-I can get a ihave message from B News to C News.  C News processes it and
-dumps it in news/out.going/lccinc.sendme/togo.  Here's where the problems
-appear to begin.  Sendbatches runs, but always fails returning a
-"./sendbatches batching togo.1 for `lccinc.sendme' failed" error.

	I would check the batchsm, and viainews scripts to see if there
is anything there that could cause an error.  The only time tht
sendbatches fails is when one of its subcommands returns either an
error value, or something on standard out/standard error (Have I got
that right, Henry?)

	If you try and run sendbatches with the "-x" flag on under sh,
sendbatches will always fail, because the error logging file will
non-zero in size.  The non-zero size of the error file is one of the
indications that sendbatches uses to determine that something is
wrong.

-Then I get a error stating that the process is not attached to the terminal
-and get a list of options for who.  When I tried passing in a LOGNAME,
-it appears to work, but still fails from sendbatches.

	It sounds like some command in the batchsm or viainews shell
scripts are attempting to invoke a program or shell script that uses
who(1).

	If you set $NEWSITE in your environment, you can run the sendme
batching scripts by hand.  The command would look something like "cat
$NEWSARTS/out.going/lccinc.sendme/togo | batchsm | viainews"  That
takes the compressor out of the loop (it's null anyway), and helps you
isolate the problem.  To futher isolate it, drop the viainews, and
direct the output to a file.  When it is in the file, check to see that
it looks like a standard control message, then pipe it into viainews.
This should give you a good handle on isolating the problem.
--
Eric Schnoebelen		eric@cirr.com		schnoebe@covnex.com
Conway's Law: In any organization there will always be one person who knows
	    what is going on.  - This person must be fired.