Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lsuc!iguana!xenitec!wynnds.xenitec.on.ca!timk From: timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) Subject: Re: Wrong Path in articles under C News Organization: TDK Consulting Services Distribution: news Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 03:11:50 GMT Message-ID: <1991May17.031150.1731@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> References: In article mike@apex.yorku.ca (Mike Marques) writes: >Greetings... > >I've just installed C News (24-MAR-1991) and NNTP (1.5.11) under >Ultrix 4.1. Things work just fine except articles posted locally have >the local host twice in their Path: field: > >Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!mike > >Can this cause problems? If someone could point me to documentation >or explain how to fix this I'd greatly appreciate it. >(I saw nothing in the documentation about this.) >Thanks... > Have you looked in the specs for your machine name and the domain name that it's hiding behind? Don't quote me on this, but f you put newshub.ccs.yorku.ca in for both the machine and domain name, you may get the problem you describe. I'd check the /usr/lib/news/whoami file to see if there's something strange in there, as well as anything else that could have the machine or user name in it. (mailpaths maybe?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Kuehn TDK Consulting Services (519)-888-0766 timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca -or- !{watmath|lsuc}!xenitec!wynnds!timk Valpo EE turned loose on unsuspecting world! News at 11! "You take it seriously when someone from a ballistics research lab calls you." Heard at a Unix user's meeting discussing connectivity issues.