bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) (04/08/88)
I'm running news on a ring of Apollo workstations with one registered
node "vader" serving as the UUCP/USENET gateway. Since that fellow
posted the erroneous checkgroups messages a couple of weeks ago, I
have been experiencing a pretty wierd problem (I'm not blaming anyone
so no flames please - my problem could be totally unrelated but I
haven't touched anything in 3 weeks and it was working before that).
Basically, postnews successfully posts to anything locally, it's just
that the article doesn't get spooled toward our news neighbor. It appears
that the /usr/lib/news/sys file has to have the newsgroup fully defined
for posting to work to the remote system (posting to to.neighbor works
completely, posting to comp.mail.sendmail works locally but never
hits the outside world).
In case you're wondering how you're reading this since I can't post to
the outside world... rn works!!! I'm at a bit of a loss to figure out
how rn is successful and postnews is not when they are using the SAME
sys file.
Any help would be appreciated as there are a bunch of people around here
who like to use postnews who are under the impression that articles
are getting out to the net.
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Vince Skahan Boeing Computer Services - Phila.
(215) 591-4116 INTERNET: bcs212%psev@boeing.com
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