abrams@cass.amd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (11/17/90)
I am trying to install rn as rrn(using the dummy inews from nntp) on a Sun server, so that standalone Suns can mount & execute rn on their own cpus. To do this, I have built rn in: /export/exec/sun3/bin and lib, and have put the name of the news server in /export/exec/sun3/lib/rn/server. The server is running Bnews at patch level 44. Rn works like a charm, but Pnews insists that the file "server" be in /usr/lib/news/server. After going through its paces, Pnews says: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Send, abort, edit, or list? s Can't get the name of the news server from /usr/lib/news/server. Either fix this file, or put NNTPSERVER in your enviroment. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The only place where /usr/lib/news is hardwired is in common.h where, if LIB is not defined, it is set. I changed the default to /export/exec/sun3/lib/rn, but this did not help. LIB is defined correctly in config.h as is lib in config.sh. Does anyone know where this incorrect path is coming from? All help will be gratefully received. Thanks.
sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (11/25/90)
It has nothing to do with rn. It has to do with the NNTP inews. Look in
common/conf.h in the NNTP distribution. Or, just set the NNTPSERVER
environmental variable and get around it.
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