darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein) (03/08/88)
I know there are better places to post messages of this genre, but I only
get the unix-pc groups right now, so here goes:
I've been trying to "expire" messages (now reaching 2 meg - just unix-pc.*!),
but every time I run expire, no matter what the parameters, I get the message:
expire: Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry
Several things could be causing this (peculiarities with my news directories
in particular), but I think it's more likely related to a missing file or
something like that. Can anyone help me? Reply through mail or
unix-pc.general if it's of general interest.
-Darren
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"I broke a mirror in hy house - I'm supposed to get seven years bad luck but
my lawyer thinks he can get me five." -Steven Wrightken@maxepr.UUCP (Ken Brassler) (03/09/88)
In article <260@bacchus> darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein) writes: > >but every time I run expire, no matter what the parameters, I get the message: > >expire: Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry > If you look though expire.c, you'll see that this error message is produced when a call to getgrnam() fails. getgrnam() is a library function, explained in getgrent(3c), which tries to find the group id, "NEWSGRP", in the /etc/group file. Obviously, the group is not there. So, find out what group NEWSGRP is, (ls -l /usr/lib/news) then add it to /etc/group. -- Ken Brassler {ihnp4|qantel|pyramid|lll-crg}!pacbell!maxepr!ken