Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News relaynews problem with NEWSCTL
Message-ID: <1991May11.220712.9660@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 22:07:12 GMT
References: <1991May10.173712.14716@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May10.173712.14716@ucselx.sdsu.edu> nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash) writes:
>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' 

Copy the new config file from the sources/conf directory to NEWSCTL/bin.
The build procedure is too bashful about this, and is declining to overwrite
an existing file, so you've got an old config file which is fouling things up.
That's the probable cause, anyway.
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And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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