cat@tygra.ddmi.com (CAT-TALK Maint. Account) (08/07/90)
In article <PisHN3w162w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: } }As I understand the 'build' script, it will install the setnewsids }program *only* if you tell it that setuid(geteuid()) won't work on }your system. If you lie to build and say it works when it doesn't, }then it won't get installed and relaynews will die when it tries to }execute it. } That must have been it. While we're on the subject of C-News, do you know if there is a way to enable/disable automatic rmgroups and newgroups. I guess I'm too lazy to look through all the source code and it didn't seem to be in the obvious places (NEWSBIN/ctl/rmgroup and newgroup scripts). I'm also getting problems with people running postnews (a Bourne Shell Script) from csh. For some reason, csh doesn't see the "# !/bin/sh" in the file and tries to execute the script itself, which fails with a "variable syntax" error (Bourne Shell and csh use different variable syntax). This seems to occur intermittantly in Xenix.
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) (08/08/90)
cat@tygra.ddmi.com (CAT-TALK Maint. Account) writes: > know if there is a way to enable/disable automatic rmgroups and > newgroups. I guess I'm too lazy to look through all the source code > and it didn't seem to be in the obvious places (NEWSBIN/ctl/rmgroup > and newgroup scripts). The C News sources/binaries aren't on this machine, so I can't check. It's probably something to do with the rmgroup and newgroup scripts, but I'd (you'd) have to look around. > I'm also getting problems with people running postnews (a Bourne Shell > Script) from csh. For some reason, csh doesn't see the "# !/bin/sh" > in the file and tries to execute the script itself, which fails with > a "variable syntax" error (Bourne Shell and csh use different variable > syntax). This seems to occur intermittantly in Xenix. I don't think Xenix understands the "#!/bin/sh" syntax. To be safe, replace all "#!/bin/sh" occurances with ": use /bin/sh", which works just fine. -- Marc Unangst | mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | Angular momentum makes the world go 'round. ...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju |