todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (06/16/89)
Everytime I post from Pnews, I get unknown flag -z in my /usr/lib/news/errlog. Anyone know where that might be coming from? I haven't been able to track it down. -- Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com "All theory, no practice. That's the story of my life."
edm@nwnexus.WA.COM (Ed Morin) (06/20/89)
In article <1989Jun15.171149.5417@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes: >Everytime I post from Pnews, I get > >unknown flag -z > >in my /usr/lib/news/errlog. Anyone know where that might be >coming from? I haven't been able to track it down. I haven't installed C-news (yet), but my guess is that the "-z" would be from C-news trying to do a uux -z blah blah which says to notify the user if the command fails. Some uux's don't have this capability. Maybe go hunt down the uux call and take out the -z and see if the problem goes away... -- Ed Morin Northwest Nexus Inc. "Unix Public Access for the Masses!" edm@nwnexus.WA.COM
todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (06/20/89)
I got lots of email regarding the mysterious "unknown option -z" that keeps cropping up in my errlog. Well, I looked at viauux, and it DOES NOT use the -z flag. I've grep'ed, vi'ed, and less'ed through several files, and cannot find any reference to the -z flag anywhere. I've got a new one for you guys... now, I am getting expire problem e in my mailbox each morning. Any clues? -- Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com "All theory, no practice. That's the story of my life."
exodus@cheers.UUCP (Greg Onufer) (06/20/89)
>>> -z message in Cnews errlog...
This most likely happens if you are passing the -z flag to uux (which
Cnews is probably doing) and your uux doesn't understand -z. Look in
your Cnews configuration and find the flags you are passing to uux.
There should only be flags for the following:
Queue the file for transmission (usually -r)
Take input from stdin (usually -)
Do not notify on error (usually -n)
Do not notify on success (default)
Some systems use -z for some of the same things. Check your uux man
page an compare the options....
Cheers!greghenry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (06/23/89)
In article <1989Jun20.160625.3647@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes: >I got lots of email regarding the mysterious "unknown option -z" >that keeps cropping up in my errlog. Well, I looked at viauux, >and it DOES NOT use the -z flag. I've grep'ed, vi'ed, and less'ed >through several files, and cannot find any reference to the -z >flag anywhere. You might want to check and see whether you are using the default command (not a batch file, not an explicit command) on any entries in your sys file. The default command does give -z to uux. (This is documented.) >I've got a new one for you guys... now, I am getting > >expire problem >e Sounds ugly; the "expire problem" part is from doexpire, but "e" is kind of mysterious. Sounds like a truncated message; some sort of disk space problem? Or expire dumping core for some bizarre reason? -- NASA is to spaceflight as the | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology US government is to freedom. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (06/25/89)
In article <1989Jun22.173415.10296@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
~>expire problem
~>e
~
~Sounds ugly; the "expire problem" part is from doexpire, but "e" is kind
~of mysterious. Sounds like a truncated message; some sort of disk space
~problem? Or expire dumping core for some bizarre reason?
expire seems to be running beautifully, though... that strange message
is the only problem I have, and it doesn't happen every time. Anyway,
I'm not going to worry about it now. If it ain't fix, don't broke it...
--
Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
"All theory, no practice. That's the story of my life."