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From: tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Tom Chmara)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with nntp:  "No title, ng"
Message-ID: <151@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 20:23:20 GMT
Reply-To: tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Tom Chmara)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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I just recently set up NNTP support for another machine across the hall.
At the same time, I added a feed off my machine.  At the present time,
I don't know who to blame, but I suspect NNTP:
	The following shows up on the console log to greet me in the
morning:

Oct 27 03:38:18 bnr-fos nntpd[2526]: /usr/new/lib/news/inews: inews: No title, n
g  from news@bnr-fos.UUCP (news)
Oct 27 03:38:19 bnr-fos nntpd[2526]: spawn: /usr/new/lib/news/inews exit status 
1

A similar note follows, in the news directory errlog:

Oct 27 03:38    <150@bnr-fos.UUCP>      inews: No title, ng  from news@bnr-fos.U
UCP (news)

The only thing that I KNOW of that's going on in the wee hours is cleaning
up of the logfiles (i.e. mv -f log log.1, etc).  That goes off at 3:30 am,
so I'm close.  I can't figure out why nntp is posting something to an
unspecified newsgroup.  I found the lines it's complaining about:  in
inews.c (not the NNTP inews server):

        if (mode != CREATENG) {
			if (!*header.title)
				error("No title, ng %s from %s", header.nbuf,
					header.from);
			if (!*header.nbuf)
				(void) strcpy(header.nbuf, DFLTNG);
			}

Any ideas?  I'm hoping this is one of those "you silly dummy, you should
..." problems that would be solved if I just RTFMed a little more closely.
It doesn't seem to be BREAKING anything serious, just my nerves :-)

	Thanks for your time...
		---tpc---
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