Re: snsend failing in POST?

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:07  PM, Patrik RÃ¥dman wrote:
> You didn't mention what OS you run, though. Linux, I presume?
>
>> I've modified the end of the last block of the default POST script to
>> read:
>>
>> } | snsend -v || fail "Unable to post to $postable ($?)"
>>
>> and I consistently get "Unable to post to test.group (2)" when I
>> attempt to post.
>
> Well, error code 2 means "system error" (as stated in the man page).
> Did you check the log file for any output? Try adding -Pddd to
> the snsend call to enable all debug messages, hopefully it will report
> why it dies.

Ah ha, thank you very much for your help... I have now fixed my 
problem, which turned out to be two minor problems.

Although I *had* been looking in the logs for info, I saw nothing, and 
assumed the snntpd was just quiet.  However, when you suggested that 
the logs *should* say interesting things, I figured out that my syslogd 
was explicitly configured to ignore syslog messages for news 
(news.none), which is obviously not what I want.  This appears to be a 
default for RedHat (7.3 is the version I'm running), so perhaps that 
will be helpful to other less experienced users down the road.

After fixing the syslog conf problem, I found that the logs were in 
fact helpful and said "/usr/local/sbin/POST: cat: command not found" -- 
so, basically, my paranoid path setup in my snntpd wrapper script 
(which included just /usr/local/sbin) was the culprit.  I changed POST 
to use /bin/cat instead of just cat, and now it works perfectly.

Thanks again!
Sonya