stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) (12/07/86)
Since installing patch #1 to 2.11 news, our news system started sending every article to itself. I have mailed Rick Adams about this but, in order to get round this, I have added the 'F' flag to the local entry in my sys file, so that the articles just get appended to a file instead of going in and out of my UUCP queue and giving my system unnecessary loading. Even when this gets fixed, I recommend that everyone leaves this flag in just in case this happens happens to you now, or in the future. It is a useful precaution. ME:world,comp,sci,news,rec,soc,talk,misc,net.announce.arpa-internet,mod,eunet,uk,scot,dcl,to:F: -- EMAIL: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk | Post: University of Lancaster, UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4120 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR
sob@cortex.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (12/09/86)
My guess is that your hostname and uucpname don't match and news is confused
on which on to use. News will strip the domain off at the first period, so
that also may be a source of problems.
Stan uucp:{shell,rice,cuae2}!soma!sob Opinions expressed here
Olan domain:sob@rice.edu or sob@soma.bcm.tmc.edu are ONLY mine &
Barber CIS:71565,623 BBS:(713)790-9004 noone else's.john@basser.oz (John Mackin) (12/12/86)
In article <86@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes: > Since installing patch #1 to 2.11 news, our news system started sending every > article to itself. I have mailed Rick Adams about this but, in order to get > round this, I have added the 'F' flag to the local entry in my sys file, ... I would be interested to hear whether this is happening to other people. We're running close-to-vanilla 2.11 with patch #1 installed and this is not happening here. (This is on a 780 with UNIX that's sort of 4.1-ish, for ridiculous legal reasons I cannot be more explicit about what the OS really is.) John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia john@basser.oz.AU (john%basser.oz@SEISMO.CSS.GOV) {seismo,hplabs,mcvax,ukc,nttlab}!munnari!basser.oz!john