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From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah)
To: kline@tera.com
Subject: Re: Cnews on FreeBSD
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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