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From: SONNEVELD@HLSDNL5.BITNET (Rolf Sonneveld, C35, (070-43)5362)
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Subject: RE: Unauthorized newsgroups
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Date: 28 Sep 89 08:47:00 GMT
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Hello, Robert,
     
        We suffered the same problem as you describe:
     
> We're running v5.6 of anu news.
> Whenever anyone without the news_mgr_id attempts to posn news,
> the error message
> Error: Post - No Authorized Newsgroups specified
> appears.
> I believe a fix for this was posted - does anyone still know of it?
>
> Robert M
>
     
Months ago I posted the same question to the ANU-NEWS list and got the
following answer from Bob Sloane (Thanks, Bob).
     
| > newsgroup. This ends up in the error message:
| >
| >         error: Post - No Authorized Newsgroup specified.
| >
| > The newsgroup, to which is posted, is NOT restricted, NOT moderated,
        (rest of my question deleted)
|
|Hmmm. Sound like you are going to have to do some debugging on this one.  In
|the NEWS_BUILD directory there should be a NEWSDBG.EXE executable that is
|linked with /DEBUG.  Signon to an account which has SYSPRV but not the NWSMGR
|id, and run this image using the RUN command.  At the DEBUG prompt type:
|
|DEBUG> set break PARSE_NEWSGROUPS  ! must be in UPPER CASE
|DEBUG> go
|
|and then try to post an item.  For some reason one parse_newsgroups thinks
|that none of the newsgroups given is valid.  You will have to trace through
|the code to see why. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I can't recreate the
|problem here, and I don't have V5.6 source.  You should probably update to
|V5.8 as soon as you can.
     
I never tried to use the DEBUG option, cause we upgraded soon after to
ANU-NEWS V5.8. Perhaps that's the best you can do. I don't know of a fix for
this problem.
     
        Wish you luck.
     
                       Rolf Sonneveld
     
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