Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: I need help with a relaynews problem...
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.214903.22845@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <365@camdev.comm.mot.com?>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 21:49:03 GMT

In article <365@camdev.comm.mot.com?> sscott@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Steve Scott) writes:
>cnews (for the most part) is working well.  I am getting articles
>in my database
>
>When I use postnews (or :post from within nn), I get the following error...

Apart from the possibility others have already mentioned -- the %$^%#ed
SysV ulimit -- the usual cause of "everything's fine except that nobody
can post an article" is permission problems.  A local posting is the
only situation in which the setuid machinery really gets exercised.

>While on a related subject:  how do I set up my sys file so that only
>articles that have been posted will be batched up for nntpsend'ing to
>my nntp server? ...

Use the L flag; see man/news.5.
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