Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems Running Cnews on Interactive 2.2
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.164347.14882@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1991 16:43:47 GMT
References: <496@gallium.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <496@gallium.UUCP> garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) writes:
>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)

Is /usr/lib/news/bin/setnewsids owned by *root* and setuid?  It can't be
owned by news, it has to belong to root.  That's the most likely reason
why it is failing to do its job.

>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.
>...
>Is this correct?

It's not incorrect.  The order of headers is officially insignificant.
C News puts the ones a news system most wants to see first.
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