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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTP 1.5.10 / Cnews 15-Dec-1990 / Stupid UNIX exec
Keywords: anne.jones
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Date: 31 Jan 91 05:42:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.002827.20517@seka.ecst.csuchico.edu> warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:
>
>  Several people provided helpful suggestions to my solution, and it now
>works fine.  I thought I'd summarize for others:
>
>From:	David Macklem
>
>	-->	The nntpd daemon, when posting a news article, sets the USER and
>	-->	LOGNAME environment variables to something like 'usenet' and
>	-->	then exec's inews (this will prevent anne.jones from going
>	-->	through hoops to figure out the USER and LOGNAME).
>	-->	Unfortunately, when the nntpd daemon exec's inews it passes
>	-->	the wrong environment.
>
>	  Seems like a reasonable solution.  If this is indeed the culpret,
>	and a widespread one at that, perhaps the NNTP gods can patch it?  (-:
>


The NNTP "god" will patch it in the next release of NNTP which will be out
this weekend. How's that for service? 

It also fixes a number of other bugs.

Look for the patch in comp.sources.bugs, news.software.nntp, and news.software.b.

Look for the fully patched sources on lib.tmc.edu and gazette.bcm.tmc.edu.
These are the authoratative ftp archive sources. I am sure they will be 
available via uucp archive sources as well. 

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