[news.software.b] .signature

tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (01/03/90)

I am a bit confused about when inews adds the .signature file, and
when not.  It seems as if it gets added when following up with 'F' in
rn, but not when posting with Pnews.  The code in inews seems to
depend on whether the Sender: field is empty, which is defaulted from
the From: field if it exists.  What is the logic here, if any?  Should
I remove the From: line from Pnews.header?  Wouldn't it be better if
it always was the posting program that inserted .signature, not
inews?
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland

scott@phlpa.UUCP (Scott Scheingold) (04/17/91)

I am running Bnews 2.11.19 on my SCO UNIX SYS V/386 Rel 3.2.2
and I have created a .signature file. When I post a message to
news using postnews after I send the message I get the following
message:

inews: "/bbs/acct/scott/.signature left off(must be readable by "inews" owner)

Can someone please give me some info as to what is wrong??
I tried chmod to 744 for .signature and even tried making the owner of the
file to news. What is wrong.

Thanks for the help.

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