FAILED daily usenet report

[Julien ÉLIE]

The Doctor,

> All right, getting a weird one here.
> 2 days ago I type gmake install instead of gmake update.
>
> The I found some old files from the bsd/os box, copied over and 'recovered'.

Instead of taking your old files from BSD/OS box, couldn't you take the 
.OLD files in your current FreeBSD box?
I bet the issue comes from configuration files in <pathetc>?
Aren't there error messages in your log files (news.crit, news.err) too?

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Julien ÉLIE

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