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From: sfy@dmp.csiro.au (Shane Youl)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News relaynews problem with NEWSCTL
Message-ID: <1991May15.032629.20911@dmp.csiro.au>
Date: 15 May 91 03:26:29 GMT
References: <1991May11.220712.9660@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
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From article <1991May11.220712.9660@zoo.toronto.edu>, by henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer):
> 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.
> -- 
> And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> "beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

Why can't build make a list of files like this that it hasn't installed? It's
a real pain to have to install them manually, especially some of the less
obvious ones. It would also be nice to have a build option which would rename
files in newsbin to name.OLD, if they already exist. Keep up the good work.
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