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From: kmcvay@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Ken McVay)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: CNEWS XENIX: rnews/relaynews fails
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.095617.13497@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 15 Mar 91 09:56:17 GMT
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Organization: 1B Systems Management Limited
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I compiled cnews today, including cnews-speedups, according to 
advice posted here earlier re SCO XENIX cnews installs. As per the
instructions, news owns everything (ie ran doit.* and again.root and
cnews-speedup/make install as news).

rnews generates "can't set uid or gid" error and zaps the inbound 
compressed news file. /usr/lib/news/setnewsids is uid root.

Pnews (trn) works fine, as it did with bnews, but the inbound processing
is a writeoff.

As a pile of folks depend on my system for newsfeeds, I'm up the creek
without a paddle. (Even tried re-compiling bnews, but Murphy negated
the process, and it won't work now, either.)

relaynews simply hangs, without error messages, and nothing is written
to /usr/lib/news/log.

Somethings amiss :-(   Any suggestions? (Please reply email - I have
no news capability at the moment as far as inbound is concerned. If 
you think you can help, call me collect, at 1-604-754-7423)


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