root@ozdaltx.UUCP (The Wiz) (07/27/87)
Recently we were able to get 2.11 news running with thanks
and help to SCO. (we're running SCO XENIX). However, inews
is acting rather strangely. When a message is posted, the
message;
inews: cannot find my name '' in /usr/lib/news/sys
I have traced this to a variable, LOCALPATHSYSNAME, but
can't determine why this is affected. My sys file has not
changed from 2.10.3. The artice WILL post successfully.
Problem #2.
When an article is posted, appearently uux is called and an
entry is made in /usr/spool/uucp sending the file back to
this system. Have noticed that the same thing happens when
rnews is unbatching articles. A D.xxx file is created
containing the news article, the companion X.xxxxx file trys
to re-run rnews again.
I suspect that some of the problem may be in the defs.h
file, but can't seem to pin anything down. I have enclosed
the following key (I think) defines.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. I DON"T
appreciate comments of "read the manual", etc. PLEASE REPLY
DIRECT if POSSIBLE.
thanks in advance...
R. Scott (scotty)
ihnp4!killer!ozdaltx!root
PS incase you're wondering, I'm using 2.10 inews w/2.11
postnews
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Partial defs.h file, Obvious things have been deleted:
#ifndef HOME
#define ROOTID 0 /* uid of person allowed to cancel anything */
#endif
#define ADMSUB "general,all.announce" /* Mandatory subscription list */
#define PAGE "/usr/bin/more" /* Default pager */
#define NOTIFY "root" /* Tell him about certain ctl messages */
/* Default xmit command - remove -z if */
#define DFTXMIT "uux - -r %s!rnews < %s" /* your uux can't do it */
/*#define UXMIT "uux -r -z -c %s!rnews '<' %s" /* If uux -c is ok */
/* #define UUPROG "euuname" /* omit for uuname, put in LIBDIR */
#define MANUALLY /* Don't execute rmgroups, just notify. */
#define NONEWGROUPS /* Don't create new groups, just notify.*/
/* #define SPOOLNEWS /* Spool incoming rnews, don't process */
/* #define SPOOLINEWS /* Spool local inews, don't process */
/* #define LOCALNAME /* There is no full name database. */
#define INTERNET /* Internet mail works locally */
/* Have tried both ways */
#define MYDOMAIN ".UUCP" /* Local domain */
/* #define CHEAP /* don't chown files to news */
/* #define OLD /* Add extra headers for old neighbors */
/* #define UNAME /* If uname call returns your nodename */
/* #define GHNAME /* If gethostname call is available. */
#define UUNAME "/etc/systemid" /* If your nodename is stored in a file */
#define V7MAIL /* Local mail format is V7 ("From ") */
#define SORTACTIVE /* if you want news presented in the order of the .newsrc */
#define ZAPNOTES /* if you want old style notes headers moved into the headers */
#define DIGPAGE /* allow digestifying in vnews */
#define DOXREFS /* Generate xref line for rn to use */
/* #define MULTICAST /* If you want to be able to multicast news */
#define LOCKF /* If you have the lockf() sys call */
/* #define ALWAYSALIAS /* temporary kludge for conversion */
#define MYORG "OZ BBS - Dallas, TX" /* My organization. Please */
/* include your city (and state, and */
/* country, if not obvious) in MYORG, */
/* and please keep it short. */
/* #define HIDDENNET "frooz" /* if you have a local network and want */
/* The mail address to look like it came */
/* from one machine */
/* NOTE: The following two macros replace the use of HIDDENNET */
/* #define GENERICPATH "frooz" /* If you are using a shared USENET/UUCP node */
/* #define GENERICFROM "Frobozz.COM" /* If you want generic From:-addresses */
/* #define NICENESS 4 /* does a nice(NICENESS) in rnews */
/* #define FASCIST "all,!all.all" /* only permit posting to certain groups */
/* see installation guide for details */
#define SMALL_ADDRESS_SPACE /* If your machine can't address > 32767 */
/* #define ORGDISTRIB "froozum" /* For organization wide control message handling */