nickerso@bdofed.UUCP (b) (06/21/89)
Hi We have recently started running Bnews 2.11 with patch level 14 on our system (AT&T 3B2's, a 622 and a 700 running RFS). We have been getting our USNET feed from attcan and have been having some problems that the administrator there doesn't know how to fix. He's never seen anything like it before. Both the inews and expire programs are getting the same error: Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry Does anyone know what this means? What have we set up wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you need more information to help solve the problem. Bill Nickerson Etobicoke Board of Education nickerso@bdofed Etobicoke, Ontario
karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (06/22/89)
The slice of code which generates this message is (expire.c):
if ((gp = getgrnam(NEWSGRP)) == NULL)
xerror("Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry");
dgid = gid = gp->gr_gid;
The problem is that NEWSGRP, which is defined in the Makefile as
"news" by default, is a group name which is not found in your
/etc/group file. You need to have this symbolic group name defined in
/etc/group so that this code will successfully acquire the numeric
value and can then execute under that ID.
--Karl