Path: utzoo!attcan!dptcdc!tmsoft!mcl!stacy
From: stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sys file problems and want patches for 2.11
Message-ID: <601@mcl.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 21:44:33 GMT
References: <556@kl-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Millions Computing Ltd., Regina, SK, Canada
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In article <556@kl-cs.UUCP>, jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>   I need some help with the sys file.  I have a line in my
> sys file which reads:
> hack:rec.games.hack::/usr/lib/sendmail hack
> 
> which according to the documentation should send all articles
> for rec.games.hack into sendmail.  It works only if the
> article contains a distribution line in the header which
> has rec.games.hack in it.  If the article has no distribution
> line then the article does not get sent.

I was just about to post a question about the same problem. I found I
could make it work if the second field contained some distribution info,
ie:
	hack:can,na,world,rec.games.hack::/usr/lib/sendmail hack

Am I missing something some where, or is the documentation just plain
old wrong.

-stacy

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S. L. Millions                                            ..!tmsoft!mcl!stacy