Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 22:39 PST From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: kline@tera.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cnews on FreeBSD Message-ID: <m0ts21V-0000SkC@pelican.com> In-Reply-To: <9602262323.AA04463@tera.com>
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In article <9602262323.AA04463@tera.com> you write: >Anyone out there who has Cnews working with uucp? I need help >in figuring out what causes these error messages. After I pull >in my feed from a site called eskinews, I get this error. >Looks like a uuxqt error: >uuxqt eskinews news (1996-02-26 03:21:04.23 17618) ERROR: Not permitted to exe >cute rnews >uuxqt eskinews news (1996-02-26 03:21:04.56 17618) ERROR: Not permitted to exe >cute rnews >uucico eskinews - (1996-02-26 04:23:00.28 17830) Calling system eskinews (port > cuaa1) > uucico eskinews - (1996-02-26 04:23:35.70 17830) Login successful > uucico eskinews - (1996-02-26 04:23:36.62 17830) Handshake successful (protoco > l 'g' sending packet/window 64/7 receiving 64/7) >This may be a UUCP problem in that I haven't set the permissions for >Taylor UUCP to use rmail. Nowhere is the Taylor code have I seen >anything about such permissions. You probably do need this (though rmail isn't relevant to news :-); "commands rnews rmail" somewhere in 'sys' (though it may be the default; it is with HDB.) Another possibility is that rnews has wrong permissions itself... CNEWS usually installs rnews in /bin, and the Cnews rnews is a shell script. Also the #! may point wrong; that is often overlooked as a source of permissions messages... I used Cnews with taylor for a long time, both on freebsd and on ESIX before freebsd. (yes, I replaced HDB with Taylor...) Now run INN on all news sites I'm in charge of but, well, ram has gotten cheaper :-) >Thanks to anyone who has clues.... > >gary kline > >PS: I realize that uucp and cnews are ancient; but it's worked >well for years. At night when the system isn't busy. The "performance release" can be configured to smooth out things a bit; some help from your feed keeping the batch size down helps too. For a smaller site the memory usage of INN is a waste. -- Pete
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