Subject: Re: Bug (ID VE78W):

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:05:06 -0700

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Fuzzy wrote:

> we run usenet locally (on this system) for about 20 newsgroups,
> the rest is available to our users via our ISPs NNTP newsserver.
> 
> we set up everything for a user who want to post to a newsgroup locally,
> to avoid the nntp overhead, but it appears that even when there is no
> nntp-server and the path to /usr/lib/active and /news, (news spool
> directory), and the path to .newsrc file for the /news spool are all
> defined to pine 3.92 it still can't call /usr/lib/news/inews to post
> locally only.
> 

Is your Pine built with the SENDNEWS definition in pine/osdep/os-lnx.h
uncommented?  The default is to have local inews posting disabled...

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