From: Olaf Titz (s_titz@ira.uka.de)
Date: 03/17/93


From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: News problem (CNews?)
Date: 17 Mar 1993 17:46:16 GMT

In article <732315402haen.news@veces.stgt.sub.org> haen@veces.stgt.sub.org (Herbert Neugebauer) writes:

> problem. It I post an article, the article is delivered
> correctly locally, but it is not transferred to ./out.going .
>...
> of CNews? Which files have to be changed? I already thought of
> ./batchparams to be the problem, but I can't figure out the

It's the confusingly self-documented ;-) ./sys file.
You basically need two entries in it:

ME:grouplist
feed:grouplist:Lf:

(this is for leaf nodes). Where grouplist represents the list of
newsgroups you receive (in the ME line) rsp. send out (in the feed
line); for leaves these are either identical or the send list is
all/all (I assume there are no local newsgroups on a single-user
machine :-)
And <feed> ist your feed's UUCP name, of course.

The batchparms file needs only the /.../ entries at the beginning and
all at the end, but this should be easily understood. But your problem
relates to the sys file.

I (again) recommend the wonderful book by O'Reilly, it explains it
all... (Btw.: you should't run uucp and cnews setuid root as of SLS,
better change it according to O'Reilly. Some twiggling with the
crontab may also improve efficiency; the standard setup seems to be
suited for bigger sites - one sendbatches per hour and other wonderful
things...)

Olaf

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