Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!rhesus!uwmacc!edwards From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: rn installation problems under Eunice Message-ID: <1745@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 09:02:59 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1745 Posted: Mon Jul 20 09:02:59 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jul-87 04:23:25 EDT References: <3256@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: edwards@unix.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP (CP^ZAZPPPYPYXU zQYhBYPYoZS) Distribution: world Organization: UW-Madison Academic Computer Center Lines: 36 Keywords: rn, eunice, getwd In article <3256@ncoast.UUCP> nvarma@ncoast.UUCP (Narendra Varma) writes: > > >I am trying to setup USENET on a VAX 11/780 under Eunice. I have managed >to get pathalias and the news software compiled and working successfully. >However, I am having problems with 'rn' > > >The specific error occurs upon startup: > > getwd: cannot open .. > > Caught an internal error-- .newsrc restored This really belongs in the eunice news group, but,..... The first thing I would check is the root in sys$system if the root exists, make sure dev is there also. Is all of Eunice configured correctly? Check to see that you have the most current version of rn, older versions that I tried did not work. I have gotten rrn from the nntp distributions to work properly. I experienced so many problems with uucp and stuff that we decided to trash that part of it and go with the rrn stuff using a real unix machine to do the news transfers. (I did get uucp to work properly on a 780 that wasn't in a cluster.) Another interesting point is fortune. I ported it successfully to Eunice put it only works properly for the person who owns it. In my case the system user. mark -- edwards@vms.macc.wisc.edu {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!edwards UW-Madison, 1210 West Dayton St., Madison WI 53706