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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: spurious inews errors
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.044249.22248@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 7 Jan 90 04:42:49 GMT
References: <1990Jan4.204831.2326@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell) writes:

>One of my users keeps getting errors when posting to a moderated group.


>	/local/bin/inews: mailing your article to
>		elroy!ames!comp-sys-ibm-pc-digest

>	Your response has been saved in ~/dead.letter

If your user is using the `nn' news reader, the problem is that the
`aux' script checks both the return value from inews and its standard
error output, and assumes an error has occured if either the return
value is non-zero or there is error output.  I fixed `aux' to only
check the return value.  It might be better to display the output
somehow.
-- 
-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-