Help with rn on xenix

Jonathan Bayer jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Sat Mar 4 11:01:18 AEST 1989


In article <1490 at sagepub.UUCP> dfm at sagepub.UUCP (David F. McCune) writes:
>HELP!  I am a new user of rn on xenix 2.3.1.  I've had news up
>and running for just a week or so.  Last night, I ran
>expire ( -e 5 ) for the first time.  This morning, when I
>tried running rn again, I got the message
>
>Warning! Somebody reset <newsgroup> -- assuming nothing read.
>
>This message appears over and over, for dozens of newgroups.


I assume you are using the SCO usenet diskette.  I had the same problem,
and solved (?) it by getting the sources for rn and compiling it on my
system.  Apparently SCO did some twiddling with the news software which
causes it.  



JB
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