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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b
Subject: Re: speaking of moving news
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 19:08:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 19:08:39 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Smoot's out of town, so I'll answer this one:

	Well, there *is* a feature in all the news programs called "pathinit"
	which will get the directory to use out of the /etc/passwd file, from
	the login directory of the user "netnews" (or whatever you might want
	to call it).  It's all described in the directions.

			=== Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway ===

The directions don't describe all the pathnames that are *still* hardwired
into the news software *despite* the valiant attempts that have evidently
been made to clean it up by Mark Horton or whoever:  it almost does what
the directions say, but not quite, and that's not good enough, not when
you find the remaining cases the hard way when something just doesn't work.

Sendmail, on the other hand, *really is* dynamically configurable just
from one file (let's not get into the arcanity of the syntax, though).
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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