On Fri, 24 Nov 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm at wit's end with this one... I receive news from my feed. If innd > is down, the compressed batch articles go to the correct directory > (/var/spool/news/in.coming). Running 'rnews -U' results in the > following message in 'news.notice'.... I've checked permissions > on rnews & gzip. I checked /usr/lib/news/innshellvars for correct > entries. What am I overlooking? Private Email please 8-)
> ...... > Nov 24 21:12:48 westgac3 innd: localhost connected 14 > Nov 24 21:12:48 westgac3 rnews: cant execv gzip No such file or directory > Nov 24 21:12:55 westgac3 last message repeated 54 times > Nov 24 21:12:55 westgac3 innd: localhost:14 closed seconds 7 accepted 0 > refused 0 rejected 0 > ...... Find out where rnews is expecting to find gzip (i think it's looking in ./ which is probably ~news or /usr/lib/news, possibly even /usr/bin). Use "strace rnews -U" or "strings -a rnews | grep gzip" or whatever method you prefer. Make a symbolic link from /bin/gzip to wherever it is that rnews expects to find gzip. Bloody hard-coded paths! Can't see the point in them myself...saves all of a few microseconds searching through the (cached!) PATH directories. Can't remember them all off the top of my head, but there's a few more similar "gotchas" with the debian INN packaage...I suppose that's why it was taken out from public view (I found a copy on my March 95 Infomagic Linux CD). Craig -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Unix Consulting: Installation, Configuration, & Support. * * --- Also, contact me if you need your Dos/Win/OS2 LAN connected to --- * * --- the Internet. --- *
