chris@choreo.COM.COM (Chris Hare / System Manager) (02/17/90)
Hi! We are attempting to install readnews/vnews/postnews on our Motorola 8000 VME based micro system, and are having some problems. We were able to get inews, rn, and Pnews to function, but not the aforementioned programns, even after following the install notes. the problem is this : readnews and vnews both compile and generate valid executables for this machine. However, neither of them find any news to be read, EVEN IF RN DOES! This is really frustrating. We have a number of novice newsreaders here, and a number of people who are frantically asking for the benefits of our port of this software. anyone who can provide details as to what we should look at, please email directly to the address above. The configuration files we are using for the compile are below: ---------localize.sh-------- rm -f Makefile cp Makefile.dst Makefile chmod u+w Makefile ed - Makefile <<'EOF' g/^#USG /s/// g/^#V7 /d g/^#VMS /d g/^#BSD4_[123] /d g/#NOTVMS/s/#NOTVMS.*// g/termlib/s//curses/ w q EOF rm -f defs.h cp defs.dist defs.h chmod u+w defs.h ed - defs.h <<'EOF' /ROOTID/s/10/301/ /N_UMASK/s/000/002/ /PAGE/s/\/usr\/ucb\/more/\/usr\/bin\/pg/ /INTERNET/s;/\* ;; /NOTIFY/s/usenet/chris/ /MYDOMAIN/s;.UUCP;.COM; /DOXREFS/s;/\* ;; /MYORG/s/Frobozz Inc., St. Louis/\/usr\/lib\/news\/organization/ /GENERICPATH/s;/\* ;; /GENERICFROM/s;/\* ;; /GENERICPATH/s/frooz/choreo/ /GENERICFROM/s/Frobozz/choreo.COM/ /LINES/s/512/2048/ w q EOF The next problem is with continuing the feed to other systems in the organization. The sys file on the machine which links direct to uunet is /usr/lib/sys choreo:local,world,all,comp,sci,news,net,soc,talk,misc,na,choreo,to.choreo:: ottawa:local,world,all,comp,sci,news,net,soc,talk,misc,na,choreo,to.ottawa:F: #toronto:local,world,all,comp,sci,news,net,soc,talk,misc,na,choreo,to.tornto:F: uunet:world,all,comp,sci,news,net,soc,talk,misc,na,to.uunet:L: When news is received, and/or when news is posted on this machine, it is NOT sent to the machine named ottawa. It does however appear on the local machine named choreo. I have verified this be posting news to the local group and finding on the originating system, but not on the 'ottawa' system. Also, when we submit local news, it is sent to uunet, even though the distribution given to Pnews is 'local'. Any ideas? On the ottawa machine, things are a little different: When news is posted to the local group, it is received on the local machine (ottawa), and sent to the machine 'choreo', but not to the net. The sys file for that machine is below. /usr/lib/sys (on ottawa) ottawa:local,world,all,comp,sci,news,net,soc,talk,misc,na,choreo,to.ottawa:F: choreo:local,world,all,comp,sci,news,net,soc,talk,misc,na,choreo,to.choreo:L: Thanks Chris Hare, Co-ordinator, Systems Management email : uunet!choreo!chris phone : 613-238-1050 fax : 613-238-4453