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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
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 09:02:59 1987
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In article <3256@ncoast.UUCP> nvarma@ncoast.UUCP (Narendra Varma) writes:
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>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'
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>The specific error occurs upon startup:
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>         getwd: cannot open ..
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>         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

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