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From: garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Problems Running Cnews on Interactive 2.2
Message-ID: <496@gallium.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 05:44:56 GMT
Organization: gallium.UUCP - Wingdale, NY
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Help!  I'm so close to getting cnews running here, I can taste it!  :-)

If someone can give me some hints on getting the latest version of cnews
to run properly under Interactive UNIX 2.2, please email them to me.

Here's a short list of some problems I'm experiencing....

I get the following error message when I try to post from a regular user's 
account (not news):

          relaynews: recursive loop setting ids (Bad file number)

I answered "no" to the build question about whether my system 
could do setuid(geteuid().  (setnewsids gets compiled and
installed setuid root).

When I answered "yes" to the setuid(geteuid() question, (no setnewsids)
I wound up with the following error when posting...

relaynews: set[ug]id failed (Bad file number)

Anyway, as you can see, I'm a little at loss here.  Any help would be greatly
appreceated (Henry, are you out there?  :-))

Finally, when I post using the news account, the article gets posted but the 
headers are switched when I compare them to the way Bnews creates them here.
Example:
                 Under Cnews        Under Bnews
                 -----------        -------------
                 Newsgroups:        Path:
                 Path:              From:
                 From:              Newsgroups:
                 ...                ...

Is this correct?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

- Gary garyb@gallium

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Gary M. Blumenstein
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