Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News Control Msg Problem(s)
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.050013.27025@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan25.022709.18398@syacus.acus.oz>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 05:00:13 GMT

In article <1991Jan25.022709.18398@syacus.acus.oz> grants@syacus.acus.oz (Grant Sayer) writes:
>The following message is appearing in the errlog from C News with regard
>to control messages -
>
>relaynews: control message `PATH=/usr/lib/news/bin:/usr/lib/newsbin/ctl;version <control/5728' exited with status 0400
>
>Does this indicate a potential problem with the mailpaths specified ?

It almost certainly indicates that *something* is going wrong with the
mailing of control-message reponses.  Did you tell build that your
mailer understands "@"?

Try running (assuming the above article, for example, is still around)
NEWSBIN/relay/newsreply <NEWSARTS/control/5728.  That will tell you what
C News *thinks* the reply address should be.
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