andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) (02/20/91)
Configuration:
nntp 1.5.11
Cnews 1-Dec-1990
rn/rrn Patchlevel 54
Sun 4/65 (SPARCstation 1+)
SunOS 4.0.3c
Problem:
I am continuing to have problems getting error messages back to users
who are posting on client machines (e.g., those running rrn). Here is
an example of how to reproduce the problem:
calvin.doc.ca /home/andrew> Pnews
Newsgroup(s): nogroup
Title/Subject: a test to nogroup
This program posts news to everyone on the machine.
Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] y
Prepared file to include [none]:
[editor runs]
Send, abort, edit, or list? s
I never receive any error messages complaining that "nogroup" is not in
the active file, whereas I do if I run this on the nntp server
machine.
It looks like the "mini-inews" that comes with nntp is supposed to
watch for error messages from the posting host, but it is not working for
me.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Can someone else who is running
nntp as a client try the Pnews test listed above?
--
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
andrew@calvin.doc.CA
"The interface IS the program."tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (02/20/91)
The problem is that wait is not returning the exit status of the
backgroup loop. My own site solution was to totally forget any
concept of backgrounding the subshell in inews, since all my users
are going to have to wait for it anyway.
--
(setq mail '("tale@rpi.edu" "uupsi!rpi!tale" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))