Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!chinacat!chip From: chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: trn bug??? Keywords: cancelling an article Message-ID: <1878@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 25 Feb 91 04:06:51 GMT References: <1991Feb24.200634.16723@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca> Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX Lines: 25 In article <1991Feb24.200634.16723@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca> mcormier@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michel B. Cormier) writes: >[...] a user of mine was trying to cancel one of his article >while using trn [...] but was always getting a message saying that >he can only cancel his own article. It works fine here. You will get this complaint if trn can't find the sitename in From: and the user name in either From: or Reply-To:. The news administrator and root should bypass the user check but not the site check. The logic is in respond.c line 434 if you'd like to check yourself. I'd guess a discrepancy is happening in the `sitename' and `logname' initializations. I'd suggest running the following in `trn': !echo %H %L and compare what it says to the site and user names in the article header. Another thing to try is to see if the news admin can cancel somebody else's (locally posted) article. Since that short-circuits the user check, this might also provide useful info. -- Chip Rosenthal 512-482-8260 | Unicom Systems Development | I saw Elvis in my wtmp file. |