Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: SONNEVELD@HLSDNL5.BITNET (Rolf Sonneveld, C35, (070-43)5362) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: Unauthorized newsgroups Message-ID:Date: 28 Sep 89 08:47:00 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: "Rolf Sonneveld, C35, (070-43)5362" Lines: 55 X-VMS-To: IN%"newsmgr@MANSE.CAD.CS.MAN.AC.UK" 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 PTT Research Neher Laboratories, P.o. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Ne(t)herlands EARN/BITnet : ICP@HLSDNL5.BITNET UUCP : hp4nl!dnlunx!rolf INTERnet : ICP%HLSDNL5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU PSS (DATAnet1) : +204 1170358::ICP