liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell) (01/05/90)
I'm running Cnews -- patch date 23-Jun-1989 which I know is old, but I'm having a problem and would like to know if it has been fixed before trying to download patches, etc. One of my users keeps getting errors when posting to a moderated group. It appears that the article gets mailed out fine, but he always gets something like the following in the mail: Return-Path: alex Return-Path: <alex> Received: by grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA27720; Thu, 4 Jan 90 01:42:12 PST Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 01:42:12 PST From: Alex Pournelle <alex> Message-Id: <9001040942.AA27720@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> To: alex Subject: follow failed /local/bin/inews: mailing your article to elroy!ames!comp-sys-ibm-pc-digest Your response has been saved in ~/dead.letter Your article/letter follows: Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest Subject: Re: non-IBM ESDI disks on a PS/2 model 60 References: <9001032308.AA15967@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> [...] The uucp logs show that the mail was actually sent out. The fact that it bounces to dead.letter makes me think that the problem is actually in mail. It looks like it is calling /bin/mail (under SunOS 4.0.3, same as /usr/bin). Any ideas? -- - Liz Allen-Mitchell liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us ames!elroy!grian!liz "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (01/06/90)
In article <1990Jan4.204831.2326@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell) writes: >One of my users keeps getting errors when posting to a moderated group. >It appears that the article gets mailed out fine, but he always gets >something like the following in the mail... We've never seen anything like that before. As a first guess, I'd suspect a mailer or uucp problem. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) (01/07/90)
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-
liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell) (01/16/90)
mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes: >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. Thanks -- that was the problem. I decided to use a "grep -v 'inews: mailing your article'" in aux to filter the output from inewws. That prevents the inews message from ever reaching the user, but if some other (real) problem occurs, another message would. I'm not sure this is the best solution either... -- - Liz Allen-Mitchell liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us ames!elroy!grian!liz "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b