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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: I need help with a relaynews problem...
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.135619.18388@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 13:56:19 GMT
References: <365@camdev.comm.mot.com?> <1991Feb19.214903.22845@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb21.042744.26770@wsrcc.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Feb21.042744.26770@wsrcc.com> wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht) writes:
>Yes. I just experienced this.  Local posting quietly failed because
>relaynews didn't like the $NEWSUMASK environment variable it was
>passed.  Grumble.  If it doesn't like the recommended umask why didn't

  This is a feature of relaynews which I like.  (Please, Henry, don't change
it).  It purpose is to make it much harder for would-be hackers to bypass
the normal routes to entering news by screwing up the environment.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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