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From: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: NNTP 1.5.10 / Cnews 15-Dec-1990 / Stupid UNIX exec
Keywords: nntp
Message-ID: <|77{~%@linac.fnal.gov>
Date: 30 Jan 91 17:09:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.062800.15853@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)
Organization: Bob's School of Quantum Mechanics
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In article <1991Jan30.062800.15853@ecst.csuchico.edu> warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu
	(John Kennedy) writes:

>  Burp, regurgitate, error, nothing posted.
>
>  Now:
>	(A)  What is our little Anne trying to look up?  The name that NNTP
>		runs under, or the user's name?

(What is the story about Anne Jones? Is she still around?)

Did you have a line like the following in nntp/common/conf.h:

   #define	POSTER		"daemon"

when you compiled nntp? "Daemon" should correspond to an entry in your
passwd file.

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