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Re: Problems with Patch and C News

#148
From: CAT-TALK Maint. Account
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 1990 03:18
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In article <PisHN3w162w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
}
}As I understand the 'build' script, it will install the setnewsids
}program *only* if you tell it that setuid(geteuid()) won't work on
}your system.  If you lie to build and say it works when it doesn't,
}then it won't get installed and relaynews will die when it tries to
}execute it.
}

That must have been it. While we're on the subject of C-News, do you 
know if there is a way to enable/disable automatic rmgroups and
newgroups. I guess I'm too lazy to look through all the source code
and it didn't seem to be in the obvious places (NEWSBIN/ctl/rmgroup
and newgroup scripts). 

I'm also getting problems with people running postnews (a Bourne Shell
Script) from csh. For some reason, csh doesn't see the "# !/bin/sh"
in the file and tries to execute the script itself, which fails with
a "variable syntax" error (Bourne Shell and csh use different variable
syntax). This seems to occur intermittantly in Xenix.
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From: cat@tygra.ddmi.com (CAT-TALK Maint. Account)
Newsgroups: mi.misc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Problems with Patch and C News
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Date: 7 Aug 90 03:18:22 GMT
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