Re: LGX (Fall) CDROM review.

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From: Phillip Hardy
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1993 23:41

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Rick (pclink@qus102.qld.tne.oz.au) wrote:


:     11. The UUCP programs are installed with the wrong ownership,
:  which means they can't spool to /usr/spool/uucp, which has the
:  right owner.  I needed to recompile anyway to install a bug
:  fix, so this wasn't a problem for me.

and not to mention :) the wrong config files setup... 
i copyed the src from the CD and recompiled UUCP after that it was
fine i also make ...conf/uucp/sys files etc and used those much nicer :)


:     12. INN (InterNetNews) is stuffed.  Not only is the config suspect
:  (try posting to a moderated newsgroup), the installation is
:  missing a key program, innd.  An incompatible version of inews
:  is in /bin.  Also installed with the wrong ownership.


this is one of the key gripes. :) 
i recompiled it and still have not got news running :(

what do you other linux users recoment 
cnews / inn or what ever?

all in all i was impressed with the install system very nice.
not so hot about how it came up :( i spent around 4 days
just seting up uucp smail getty etc.
now just need to get the news running :)

Phillip. 

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Subject: Re: LGX (Fall) CDROM review.
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