cjp@beartrk.beartrack.com (CJ Pilzer) (01/27/91)
I am running Cnews on my UNIXPC 7300. My /usr/lib/news/active file contains lines for unix-pc.general and comp.sys.3b1. When I am reading the news I can read all of the articles in both of these groups. When I try to run postnews and specify either of these groups, I get the following message: inews: comp.sys.3b1 matches no groups in /usr/lib/news/active inews: article in /u/cjp/dead.article What could I be doing wrong? I am posting this message on the computer that forwards the news to me. Thanks for any replies. --cjp@ursaco.beartrack.com
dave@dms3b1.uucp (Dave Hanna) (01/28/91)
In article <455@beartrk.beartrack.com> cjp@beartrk.beartrack.com (CJ Pilzer) writes: > >I am running Cnews on my UNIXPC 7300. My /usr/lib/news/active file contains >lines for unix-pc.general and comp.sys.3b1. When I am reading the news >I can read all of the articles in both of these groups. When I try to >run postnews and specify either of these groups, I get the following message: > >inews: comp.sys.3b1 matches no groups in /usr/lib/news/active Does this happen if you post _only_ to comp.sys.3b1, or just if you cross-post to another group (e.g., comp.sys.3b1,unix-pc.general)? The reason I ask is that I had exactly the same problem a few weeks ago when I tried to cross-post a forsale announcement to 3 different groups. Inews rejected it with exactly the same message, even though all three groups were in my active file. I played with Inews some, and traced it down to a moderately complicated egrep line that is failing when run from within the inews shell script, even though it succeeds when exactly the same line is run by hand (from ksh). I haven't pursued it farther than that, and I would appreciate any insight anyone has. >I am posting this message on the computer that forwards the news to me. Yeah, I ended up posting from the Sun at work. But I have never had a problem with a post to a single group. -- Dave Hanna, Infotouch Systems, Inc. | "Do or do not -- There is no try" P.O. Box 584, Bedford, TX 76095 | - Yoda (214) 358-4534 (817) 540-1524 | UUCP: ...!letni!dms3b1!dave |