garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) (04/01/91)
Help! I'm so close to getting cnews running here, I can taste it! :-)
If someone can give me some hints on getting the latest version of cnews
to run properly under Interactive UNIX 2.2, please email them to me.
Here's a short list of some problems I'm experiencing....
I get the following error message when I try to post from a regular user's
account (not news):
relaynews: recursive loop setting ids (Bad file number)
I answered "no" to the build question about whether my system
could do setuid(geteuid(). (setnewsids gets compiled and
installed setuid root).
When I answered "yes" to the setuid(geteuid() question, (no setnewsids)
I wound up with the following error when posting...
relaynews: set[ug]id failed (Bad file number)
Anyway, as you can see, I'm a little at loss here. Any help would be greatly
appreceated (Henry, are you out there? :-))
Finally, when I post using the news account, the article gets posted but the
headers are switched when I compare them to the way Bnews creates them here.
Example:
Under Cnews Under Bnews
----------- -------------
Newsgroups: Path:
Path: From:
From: Newsgroups:
... ...
Is this correct?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
- Gary garyb@gallium
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Gary M. Blumenstein
garyb@galliumhenry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (04/03/91)
In article <496@gallium.UUCP> garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) writes: >I get the following error message when I try to post from a regular user's >account (not news): > > relaynews: recursive loop setting ids (Bad file number) Is /usr/lib/news/bin/setnewsids owned by *root* and setuid? It can't be owned by news, it has to belong to root. That's the most likely reason why it is failing to do its job. >Finally, when I post using the news account, the article gets posted but the >headers are switched when I compare them to the way Bnews creates them here. >... >Is this correct? It's not incorrect. The order of headers is officially insignificant. C News puts the ones a news system most wants to see first. -- "The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 are all true." -D. Harrison| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry