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From: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier)
Subject: Re: News not being transferred
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.143415.2930@engin.umich.edu>
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Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
References: <1991Apr19.134820.20531@ornl.gov>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 14:34:15 GMT

In article <1991Apr19.134820.20531@ornl.gov>
	de5@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes:
>I'm running the latest C News and NNTP under Ultrix 3.1.

Me too...

>I've been successfully receiving and sending news to one site,
>utkcs2.cs.utk.edu, but have been having trouble sending news to
>another feed, rsg1.er.usgs.gov.
>
>My sys file looks like:
>
>ME:all,!ga,!atl,!git,!cs::
>rsg1:misc,sci:n:rsg1.er.usgs.gov
>utkcs2:all,!junk,!to,to.utk/all,!ornl,!mmes:n:utkcs2.cs.utk.edu
>
>When I post locally, the log shows, e.g.:
>
>Apr 19 09:27:14.966 ornl + <1991Apr19.132711.20128@ornl.gov> utkcs2
>
>Where's rsg1?  Curiously, some stuff *was* sent to rsg1 yesterday,
>when I first modified the sys file.

You're missing the distributions line on the rsg1 sys line.
It should look like:

rsg1:misc,sci/all,!ornl,!mmes,!local:n:rsg1.er.usgs.gov

Cheers...

--
Mike Pelletier             | "Wind & waves are breakdowns in the commitment of
The University of Michigan |  getting from here to there, but they are the con-
  College of Engineering   |  ditions for sailing.  Not something to eliminate,
Student/Systems Admin      |  but something to dance with."