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From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Problems getting error messages to remote posters
Message-ID: <QA~&P{%@rpi.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 05:44:34 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.224135.22001@rick.doc.ca>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
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The problem is that wait is not returning the exit status of the
backgroup loop.  My own site solution was to totally forget any
concept of backgrounding the subshell in inews, since all my users
are going to have to wait for it anyway.
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    (setq mail '("tale@rpi.edu" "uupsi!rpi!tale" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))