Problems installing news

[Jim Tomlinson]

In article <9007082132.AA09124 at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell at CCU1.AUKUNI.AC.NZ writes:
>
>I am trying to install news software version 2.11 on an 4D/240S running 3.2.2.
>
>The script used inews -C to perform the modifications but the script failed
>with 'memory error' on each invocation of inews. When I tried typing the 
>commands by hand I got a segmentation fault in inews.
>
Same here.  Seems that invoking inews in any manner other than with no
args (which results in a usage summary) dumps core.  When invoked by
'cat [spooled news file] | /usr/local/bin/rnews' (rnews is a symbolic
link to inews), dbx says we lost it in chkfile (chkfile's parameter,
"/usr/local/lib/news/active", has the right permissions, and inews is
setuid and setgid).  Anyway, dbx seems sorely confused, as the line
number it gives is meaningless, and it says chkfile was called by
_dwmultu, which is in turn the top of the calling stack.  At any rate,
I'll let that mystery remain unsolved if someone has a localize.sh
that works for them on the 4D architecture.  Thanx. - jdt

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