ramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) (12/16/90)
Thanks to those of you who offered suggestions. There were two major problems. First, I missed the fact that there was a "both" option to nntp_access. In the access file itself it is very clear that "read implies xfer" :-). Second, if you define DBZ and CNEWS but don't define DBM in conf.h you end up with nntp trying to use the USGHIST option of creating a histfile. The problem stems from some code in the server/misc.c gethistent routine that checks to see if NDBM or DBM is defined and, if not, defines USGHIST. So, I defined DBM and things seem to work. -ED -- -Ed Ramsey User Services Manager, NPIRS, Purdue University ramsey@Purdue.edu !purdue!ramsey (317) 494-0442