banko@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Brad Banko) (11/03/90)
Thanks to everybody who offered suggestions about getting the postnews part of rrn up and running. Here is a summary of the fix that worked: nntp 1.5.9 rn from lib.tmc.edu (~10/25/90) In addition to the standard rn "Configure" installation, with some careful study of the config.h file to confirm that files and directories are correctly specified,I had to do two other things to get (rn2) rrn working: 1) take out -O (optimization) from cc in the Makefile (fixed the "interp buffer overflow problem...") 2) fix the "Pnews" script (?) so that it found "inews" in the right place (where nntp installed /usr/local/bin/inews) rather than /usr/news/inews, where it was looking. 3) when I tested Pnews then, it still doesn't find/usr/news/moderators, but I think that it then automatically (as rrn) looks to the server machine for this file. 4) i then successfully posted to our local uiuc.tst!!! -- ============================================================== Bradley T Banko Theoretical Biophysics, Beckman Institute
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (11/03/90)
In article <1990Nov2.232153.11641@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> banko@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Brad Banko) writes: >1) take out -O (optimization) from cc in the Makefile >(fixed the "interp buffer overflow problem...") Just compile intrp.c separately. Nothing else breaks with -O. >2) fix the "Pnews" script (?) so that it found "inews" in the right >place (where nntp installed /usr/local/bin/inews) rather >than /usr/news/inews, where it was looking. No, nntp got it wrong. inews isn't something you want in the usual path ("maybe" rnews, but not inews--if you're running as rrn you won't have rnews). In any case, the convention is to use /usr/lib/news (/usr/news is reserved for a facility BSD removed from their UNIX and replaced with "msgs"). -=EPS=- -- When someone says "news" ... are they talking about news, Network News, NeWS, or NEWS? No wonder you're confused...