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From: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C News relaynews problem with NEWSCTL
Keywords: NEWSCTL relaynews
Message-ID: <1991May10.173712.14716@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 17:37:12 GMT
Sender: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
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I recently upgraded my C News from 25-May-1990 to 24-Mar-1991.  All went
well except for relaynews.  Relaynews works fine except for posting
articles.  It then insists:

  relaynews: warning: renouncing setuid due to nonstandard `NEWSCTL' 
    in environment
  relaynews: can't create lock temporary `/usr/lib/news/LOCKTM012006' 
    (Permission denied)
  /usr/local/lib/news/inews: article in /usr1/co/nash/dead.article

The problem appears to be that relaynews no longer allows symbolic links.
My news is in /usr/local/lib/news, with a symbolic link from /usr/lib/news.
I built C news with NEWSCTL as /usr/lib/news, and everyone is happy but
relaynews when posting.

How do I convince relaynews that NEWSCTL is standard?  Help!


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