inews/rnews trouble

[Russ Allbery]

B Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> writes:

> Yes. I did not get the 2.3.5 rnews to work properly so I tryed to build
> 2.4.1 And it failed. Well not completly rnews was built correctly and i
> copied it over the old 2.3.5 binary. Both the freebsd port and from
> source.

The error message that you were getting didn't indicate a problem in rnews
anyway.  It indicated that innd unexpectedly closed the connection when
rnews was attempting to feed it.

> As I understand it you can't have flags to rnews if you pipe thru it?

I don't see any reason why you can't.

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