HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: boehme@unvax.union.edu (Eric M. Boehm)
Subject: Re: Unable to post using NNTP clients  - solved
Keywords: NNTP ANU NEWS NEWSRDR inews dead.article
Reply-To: Eric.Boehm@union.edu
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:41:02 GMT

boehme@unvax.union.edu (Eric M. Boehm) writes:
>441 /usr/local/lib/news/inews: article in /var/spool/news/dead.article

I knew this had a simple answer :-). I forgot to include the local
newsgroup in the ME: line in my sys file. Once I added it, everything
worked fine.

-- 
Eric M. Boehm
Eric.Boehm@union.edu
BOEHME@UNION.BITNET
From: rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Where Are OBJ & OLB files in NEWS_V60
Date: 7 Jan 1993 18:26 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: eql10.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1993Jan7.083221.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu>,\
 sasurguine@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu writes...
> I am confused regarding the installation of ANU_V6.0.  I have docs for the 
> installation which state that there should be 4 savesets:
>   1) NEWS_V60_SRC.BCK
>   2) NEWS_V60_OBJ.BCK
>   3) NEWS_V60_DIST.BCK
>   4) NEWS_V60.DOC.BCK
> What is confusing is this :  I can't find the OBJ SAVESET:

     If you're building from sources then you don't need the object file
saveset, and you probably don't need the pre-built distribution saveset.
Everything in the latter ought to be constructable from the source and
documentation kits.  I'm not positive about that though.

> Multinet support cannot be loaded - no library files...
> 
> I believe this to be the lack of OBJ & OLB files, if not then I am missing
> something else here.

     No, it's nothing from ANU-NEWS that's missing.  Whoever installed
MultiNet on your system did not install the optional programmer's library
kit.  It has a set of C header files (foo.h in [multinet.include] and
further subdiretories), and newsbuild.com can detect that they're not
present.  [You should have been able to figure that out for yourself by
just searching for "Multinet support cannot be loaded" in newsbuild.com.]

     You can install the programmer's kit without reinstalling MultiNet,
as long as you can still find the distribution tape of CD that is. :-)
As I recall the product name to feed to VMSINSTAL is MNETLIB031; Bookreader
format documentation for MultiNet is also separate as MNETDOC031.

		Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu
From: michaelb@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Locally defined newsgroups with supervisors.
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:37:23 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana


I have a problem with locally defined newsgroups that have supervisors.  I 
have setup a couple of newsgroups for faculty members to use in their 
classes.  I have given the faculty member SUPERVISE and WRITE privileges.  
The problem arises when they attempt to CANCEL a news item in their 
newsgroup.  When they start NEWS their supervise privileges are disabled.  
They have to enter SET SUPERVISE ON in order to CANCEL news items.  Is 
there a way to set up locally defined newsgroups so that the SUPERVISE 
privileges are automatically ON when the privileged user starts news?

Thanks--

Michael

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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: sonneveld@research.ptt.nl (Rolf E. Sonneveld)
Subject: How to use Arbitron
Organization: PTT Research, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:59:56 GMT

        Hi, all

        Is there any information on how to use Arbitron? Can I use it
        on a diskless client, without a news.items file? What are the
        options? Any help appreciated.

        Rolf E. Sonneveld
        PTT Research
        The Netherlands
Xref: sparky news.software.anu-news:1718 news.newusers.questions:5798
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: NEWS POSTS STAYING LOCAL 
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:44:59 CST
Followup-To: news.software.anu-news,news.newusers.questions
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1993Jan11.142534.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, wayne@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
> I am having diffucilty determining what is necessary so that local posts
> get passed out to the internet. Right now, local posts stay local. Although 
> this is ok in some instances, posts to newsgroups gotton from the upstream 
> siteneed to to go back out to the net.

You need to run nntp_xmit to send locally posted article back to your
feed site.  You should have something like the following in your
NEWS.SYS file:

ME:comp,rec,soc,talk,world,na,to
feed.site:comp,rec,soc,talk,world,na,to.feed:N:NEWS_MANAGER_DEV/[POST]feed.ids

The second line tells NEWS that any time an article is posted, its
message id should be appended to the file feed.ids.  That fill will in
turn be used as input to the nntp_xmit program:

$ NNTP_XMIT feed.site tcp news_manager_dev:[post]feed.ids -
            nntp_xmit.log feed.dbg

NNTP_XMIT will send the article to your feed site.
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From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Need some NNTPclient help
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:51:04 -0800
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1isfv5INNdat@post.its.mcw.edu>, kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie) writes:
> Bob Sloane (sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) wrote:
> : In <1hniu7INNjp3@post.its.mcw.edu>, kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie) says:
> : > socket: non-translatable vms error code: 0x1512BA, vms message:
> : > %lib-e-actimage, error activating image !as
> : >                 No link to NEWS Server on uwm.edu
> : 
> : It sounds to me line your NEWS.EXE file was built for a version of the
> : TCP/IP software that you don't have.  Have you tried rebuilding it?
> 
> argh.  I was hoping I'd get a LITTLE more credit than that.  :-)
> 
> bob.. it gets even weirder.  Yes, I rebuilt it, WITH the right
> nntp support.   I have since found that the diskless client stuff
> works just FINE, *if* I leave the news.exe image UNINSTALLED.
> 
> As soon as I INSTALL the image, it all blows up in my face.  
> I also get the same thing with 6.1-b5.   

Kent,

I remember a problem where I tried to install both News 6.0-3 and a News 6.1
beta release at the same time.  I can't recall the error message I got but I
know it wasn't friendly...  Right now I've got 6.0-3 installed and 6.1b5
running concurrently but uninstalled (therefore requiring privs).

You're not trying to install two versions are you?  If so, de-install your
old version before installing the new one.

-- 
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EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA     Office:  (604) 389-3430   Fax: (604) 389-3412
From: sasurguine@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Full ANU Distribution
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:29:52 GMT

I am curious about the Distribution I have.  It is NEWS_V60.  I have
searched my directory for the OBJ Saveset but can't seem to find it.
I only have 3 savesets and the Docs say I should have 4.

Curious ... What is the address from which I can get the full
distribution?

Thanks In Advance,


Xref: sparky news.software.anu-news:1710 news.software.nntp:1774 news.software.readers:2771 news.admin.technical:101
From: "Eric M. Boehm" <Eric.Boehm@union.edu>
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news,news.software.nntp,news.software.readers,news.admin.technical
Subject: Unable to post using NNTP clients from ANU NEWS and NEWSRDR
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:57:37 -0500
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Eric.Boehm@union.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net

I have an Ultrix 4.2C box (DECsystem 5000/200) that serves as a news
hosts for our campus. Other UNIX (Ultrix, SunOS) boxes with
newsreaders that are NNTP clients have no trouble posting messages.

I have been trying out three news readers on our VMS systems.

1. ANU NEWS 6.0-3
2. NEWSRDR V4.0
3. VMS NEWS 1.2

Only VMS NEWS 1.2 is able to post a message (local newsgroup). The
other two give the same error:

441 /usr/local/lib/news/inews: article in /var/spool/news/dead.article

The important lines from the nntp_log are:

Jan 11 20:55:24 localhost nntpd[20606]: /usr/local/lib/news/inews: /usr/local/lib/news/inews: article in /var/spool/news/dead.article
Jan 11 20:55:24 localhost nntpd[20606]: spawn: /usr/local/lib/news/inews exit status 1
Jan 11 20:55:24 localhost nntpd[20606]: leopold.union.edu post failed

Since one reader works and two fail, I don't think the problem exists
on the VMS system. It must be some sort of configuration problem but I
am not sure how to track down what inews is unhappy about.

Any suggestions or hints would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Eric M. Boehm
Eric.Boehm@union.edu
BOEHME@UNION.BITNET
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Problem with SAVE command
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:15:46 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1993Jan12.121017.3167@peanut>, kraftjoel@bvc.edu writes:
> It was just pointed out to me by a user that the SAVE command in 6.0-3 does
> not behave as documented.

An easier fix is to delete the CLD for the SAVE command completely,
and add "alias SAVE" after "define verb EXTRACT":

define verb EXTRACT
    synonym SAVE
    routine do_extract
...
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From: saul_sy@hnrc.tufts.edu (Saul Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: SKIM cleaning up before Expires: date?
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:27:45 GMT
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

In article <1993Jan10.183532.31@sfpp.com>, longo@sfpp.com (Bob Longo) writes:
> I see that many newsitems - particularly monthly postings - have headers that
> specify "Expires:".  For some reason, my ANU-NEWS skim procedure is cleaning
> all newsitems at their default itemhold period (14 days) rather than keeping
> the newsitems until the "Expires:" date.
> 
> Is there something I need to do the NEWSSKIM.COM or it the newsgroups to
> prevent the SKIM from cleaning up these monthly postings at the default
> itemhold time for the newsgroup and instead retain them until the "Expires:"
> date?
> 

Are your newsgroups set IGNOREEXPIRE? (This is a qualifier to the 
SET NEWSGROUP command but may be undocumented.)

Try setting the groups /NOIGNOREEXPIRE and see if that changes the
expiration behavior.

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Xref: sparky news.software.anu-news:1703 news.newusers.questions:5757
From: longo@sfpp.com (Bob Longo)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news,news.newusers.questions
Subject: SKIM cleaning up before Expires: date?
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:35:32 PST
Organization: Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines

I see that many newsitems - particularly monthly postings - have headers that
specify "Expires:".  For some reason, my ANU-NEWS skim procedure is cleaning
all newsitems at their default itemhold period (14 days) rather than keeping
the newsitems until the "Expires:" date.

Is there something I need to do the NEWSSKIM.COM or it the newsgroups to
prevent the SKIM from cleaning up these monthly postings at the default
itemhold time for the newsgroup and instead retain them until the "Expires:"
date?

Thanks,
-Bob Longo
-- 
==============================================================================
Bob Longo (longo@sfpp.com)
Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines
Los Angeles, CA
From: kraftjoel@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Problem with SAVE command
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:10:17 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

It was just pointed out to me by a user that the SAVE command in 6.0-3 does
not behave as documented.  The help clearly shows the format to be the same
EXTRACTS:

		EXTRACT filename [item-range]
		SAVE [output-file [item-range]]

But the actual syntax of the SAVE command is:

		SAVE/FILE=filename [item-range]

The diff file to make the syntax as documented is below.  I would suggest
tweaking the help a bit too.  ie:

		EXTRACT [filename [item-range]]

since the filename is really optional, and changing the help for SAVE to 
reference the help for EXTRACT.  (Unless my assumption is wrong that they
are the same command...they do execute the same routine)

Joel Kraft
System Manager
Buena Vista College                  

************
File $1$DUA0:[ANUNEWS.NEWS_SRC]NEWSCMD.CLD;2
 1060       parameter   P1,         label=FILE,value(type=$outfile)
 1061       parameter   P2,         label=NOTERANGE, value(list)
 1062       qualifier   ALL,        nonnegatable
******
File $1$DUA0:[ANUNEWS.NEWS_SRC]NEWSCMD.CLD;1
 1060       parameter   P1,         label=NOTERANGE, value(list)
 1061       qualifier   ALL,        nonnegatable
************
************
File $1$DUA0:[ANUNEWS.NEWS_SRC]NEWSCMD.CLD;2
 1078       qualifier   NEWSGROUPS  value(required,list)
******
File $1$DUA0:[ANUNEWS.NEWS_SRC]NEWSCMD.CLD;1
 1077       qualifier	FILE	    nonnegatable,value(required)
 1078       qualifier   NEWSGROUPS  value(required,list)
************
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: abhiram@kailash (Abhiram G Khune)
Subject: q
Organization: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:05:40 GMT
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Need some NNTPclient help
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:51:03 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1isfv5INNdat@post.its.mcw.edu>,
 kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie) writes:
> As soon as I INSTALL the image, it all blows up in my face.  
> I also get the same thing with 6.1-b5.   

Do you perhaps have another image called NEWS.EXE installed in another
directory? If so, that doesn't work. The hash table that tracks
installed images is based on the file name, so you can only have one
NEWS.EXE installed at a time.  There is some stuff about this on DSNlink.
-- 
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E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444
From: smolenova@mvax.uakom.cs
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: help with posting
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:20:21 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: Institute of Automation and Communication

Hi,
I have just installed ANU-news server ver. 6.1beta5 (instead 6.03) on VAX/VMS.
The situation with posting from VAX server and from our news clients is not
good. When somebody post an item from ANU_NEWS, the item is not put in our
"ids" file.
When I create an item in Trumpet, Xrn or Tin client, the item is successfully
posted in newsgroup on my Anu-news server, but the item is not put in the file
"aci.ids". That means - the item is not send to the world.
We use ANU-NEWS with CMUTEK server.
We are end node and our feeding site is aci.cvut.cs. Our NEWS.SYS file looks
like: (sun.uakom.cs and pako.uakom.cs are node with news clients - Xrn,Tin,
Trumpet)
##------------------------------------------------------------------------
## first entry is for THIS SITE
##
me:bionet.*,bit.listserv.*,biz.*,comp.*,misc.*,news.*,rec.*,\
sci.*,soc.*,vmsnet.*,control,junk,to.mvax.uakom.cs
aci.cvut.cs:bionet.*,bit.listserv.*,biz.*,comp.*,\
misc.*,news.*,rec.*,sci.*,soc.*,vmsnet.*,control:N:\
 NEWS_MANAGER_DEV/[POST]aci.ids
sun.uakom.cs:bionet.*,bit.listserv.*,biz.*,comp.*,misc.*,news.*,rec.*,sci.*,\
soc.*:::world
pako.uakom.cs:comp.*,bionet.*,news.*:::world


In control file nntp_access.news in news_root directory is line:
 default   read  post *
We are end node and we have not NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file.

Could you help me with posting ?
Whatever advice is welcome! Thank you for your help.

Sincerely				Magda Smolenova
				e-mail:smolenova@uakom.cs
From: mikel@anorad.linet.org (Mikel Beck)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: This newsgroup?
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:36:41 GMT
Organization: Anorad Corporation, Hauppauge, New York


	Is this newsgroup active?

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From: daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: MARK command fails in 6.0-3
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:55:01 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

Hi,

The MARK command does not seem to work in 6.0-3. Attempts to mark an item just
get the error message "MARK - no item specified". Is this a bug, and if so, is
there a patch for it?

Thanks,

Dave
--

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VAX Systems Programmer              |  impossible sinisterly conditions one to
Oxford University Computing Services|  the pitfall corollary that nothing is
daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk              |  ridiculous"
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Need some NNTPclient help
Date: 10 Jan 93 11:08:47 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In <1hniu7INNjp3@post.its.mcw.edu>, kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie) says:
> socket: non-translatable vms error code: 0x1512BA, vms message:
> %lib-e-actimage, error activating image !as
>                 No link to NEWS Server on uwm.edu

It sounds to me line your NEWS.EXE file was built for a version of the
TCP/IP software that you don't have.  Have you tried rebuilding it?
-- 
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From: kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Need some NNTPclient help
Date: 11 Jan 1993 12:57:41 -0600
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin  (Milwaukee, WI)
NNTP-Posting-Host: post.its.mcw.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Bob Sloane (sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) wrote:
: In <1hniu7INNjp3@post.its.mcw.edu>, kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie) says:
: > socket: non-translatable vms error code: 0x1512BA, vms message:
: > %lib-e-actimage, error activating image !as
: >                 No link to NEWS Server on uwm.edu
: 
: It sounds to me line your NEWS.EXE file was built for a version of the
: TCP/IP software that you don't have.  Have you tried rebuilding it?

argh.  I was hoping I'd get a LITTLE more credit than that.  :-)

bob.. it gets even weirder.  Yes, I rebuilt it, WITH the right
nntp support.   I have since found that the diskless client stuff
works just FINE, *if* I leave the news.exe image UNINSTALLED.

As soon as I INSTALL the image, it all blows up in my face.  
I also get the same thing with 6.1-b5.   

weird, eh?

-- 
--------------
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Information Technology Systems
Medical College of Wisconsin				(414) 257-8769
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Locally defined newsgroups with supervisors.
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:36:44 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In <1993Jan10.183724.20818@yang.earlham.edu>, michaelb@yang.earlham.edu writes:
> I have a problem with locally defined newsgroups that have supervisors.  I 
> have setup a couple of newsgroups for faculty members to use in their 
> classes.  I have given the faculty member SUPERVISE and WRITE privileges.  
> The problem arises when they attempt to CANCEL a news item in their 
> newsgroup.  When they start NEWS their supervise privileges are disabled.  
> They have to enter SET SUPERVISE ON in order to CANCEL news items.  Is 
> there a way to set up locally defined newsgroups so that the SUPERVISE 
> privileges are automatically ON when the privileged user starts news?

You don't mention what version of NEWS you are running. In V6.0-3 and
V6.1 you can have an initialization file with commands in it. Create a
file with the SET SUPERVISE ON command in it, and then define a
logical NEWS_INIT (not NEWS_INI, which is different) and the SET SUPER
command will be executed whenever NEWS is started.
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From: saul_sy@hnrc.tufts.edu (Saul Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Need some NNTPclient help
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:20:18 GMT
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

In article <1isfv5INNdat@post.its.mcw.edu>, kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie) writes:
> Bob Sloane (sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) wrote:
> : In <1hniu7INNjp3@post.its.mcw.edu>, kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie) says:
> : > socket: non-translatable vms error code: 0x1512BA, vms message:
> : > %lib-e-actimage, error activating image !as
> : >                 No link to NEWS Server on uwm.edu
> 
> bob.. it gets even weirder.  Yes, I rebuilt it, WITH the right
> nntp support.   I have since found that the diskless client stuff
> works just FINE, *if* I leave the news.exe image UNINSTALLED.
> 
> As soon as I INSTALL the image, it all blows up in my face.  
> I also get the same thing with 6.1-b5.   
> 
> weird, eh?

Um, not necessarily.

If you install the image with elevated privileges, all the images
that it references need to be installed as well. This is a simple
security precaution.

Figure out what image is trying to be activated (it's almost certainly
one of the images associated with your transport, whichever one that is)
and I'd bet you'd find that it isn't installed. Install it and I'd bet
things start working.

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From: bennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Bug in SET PROF/RCORDER ??
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:44:49 CST
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

There appears to be a bug in VMS News - V6.1B5 (4-Sep-1992).

When I SET PROFILE/RCORDER, and edited my NEWSRC. into preferred order, I was 
unable to POST or REPLY.  The message I got back was something like "No valid 
newsgroup specified" after the newsgroup question.

I fixed it by editing the NEWSRC. file back into alpha order.  Obviously a 
routine expects the groups to be listed alphabetically. (BTW this worked in 
our previously installed version)

Has anyone else seen this ?

Regards,

John Bennett                                   bennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Head, I.T. Services Development                Phone : +61 8 259 5292
Corporate Information Systems                  FAX   : +61 8 259 5537
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