Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cbosgd.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mark
From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: missing mod articles
Message-ID: <605@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 20:39:06 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.605
Posted: Sun Dec 23 20:39:06 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Dec-84 03:22:03 EST
References: <338@wnuxb.UUCP> <2108@nsc.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus
Lines: 24

For what it's worth, we were not getting about half the mod.all
groups on cbhydra.  It turned out that the suid bit on inews had
become unset, and the new articles were being installed in junk.

If you find you aren't getting any mod.all groups, check the sys
file of the machines upstream from you - perhaps they aren't
transmitting them.

If you also aren't getting net.announce, you may be running news
version 2.10, with the mod bug.  Or someone upstream from you may
be running a very old news, or notesfiles, or sending you news in
A format, all of which will strip out the approval stamp neede for
moderated newsgroups to be accepted.

If you are getting some mod.all groups but missing others, check the
suid bit on inews, your junk directory, and your log file.  One
recently posted article to grep for is <571@genrad.UUCP>, in newsgroup
mod.sources.

If you are getting most moderated groups, but nothing on mod.music or
mod.unix, this is to be expected.  Nothing is being posted to those
two newsgroups right now, as far as I know.

	Mark Horton