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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@localhost.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.software.readers Subject: Re: TRN 3.6 vs. FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 10 Sep 1996 23:01:49 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 33 Message-ID: <514s0t$dpt@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960910085740.3953B-100000@alpha.jpunix.com> <514mas$4p5@news.du.etx.ericsson.se> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.184 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27038 news.software.readers:30705 In article <514mas$4p5@news.du.etx.ericsson.se>, Per Hedeland <per@erix.ericsson.se> wrote: >In article <Pine.NEB.3.93.960910085740.3953B-100000@alpha.jpunix.com> "John A. Perry" <perry@alpha.jpunix.com> writes: >>I'm trying to get TRN 3.6 to work with FreeBSD 2.1.5-Release. Everything >>seems to work except the posting mechanism. When I try to post via Pnews, >>I get the following error: >> >>Check spelling, Send, Abort, Edit, or List? s >>tear: not found >>cat: /tmp/in3938hdr: No such file or directory >>cat: /tmp/in3938body: No such file or directory >>/usr/local/bin/inews: lost news; cat status 1 >> >>I've looked through the code and can't find any occurances of "tear" >>except in comments and in one string search. > >Those messages are from your /usr/local/bin/inews, which identifies >itself on the last line - it is apparently from some version of C news >(and it is a shell script too), which may or may not be appropriate for >you. If you have a local (i.e. no NNTP) C news installation it might be, >and if so you have some configuration problem with that installation. > >Otherwise you need to pick up a so called "mini-inews" that talks NNTP >to your News server somewhere (I believe there is one in the "nntp" >package, wherever that lives these days). I'm wondering if he got trn from the FreeBSD ports collection. If not, he should. Also, there's a mini-inews in the FreeBSD port of nn, I believe. -- Conrad Sabatier | Tired of the Microsoft monopoly? conrads@neosoft.com | Try FreeBSD! UNIX on a PC! It rocks! http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads | http://www.freebsd.org