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From: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News relaynews problem with NEWSCTL
Message-ID: <1991May13.161751.6417@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 16:17:51 GMT
References: <1991May10.173712.14716@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991May11.220712.9660@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
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In article <1991May11.220712.9660@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

Things are now working fine.  Thanks to all for the responses.  I'm still
a bit puzzled as to why I can no longer point NEWSCTL to a symbolic link
(/usr/lib/news) in config and within build.  Changing NEWSCTL and re-running 
build with the full path (/usr/local/lib/news) solved the problem.

Thanks.


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