From: SMTP%"MX-List@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU" 22-APR-1994 09:33:23.41 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: SYSLCK also required for MX-NEWS-GATEWAY X-Listname: Message Exchange Discussion List Warnings-To: <> Errors-To: owner-mx-list@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Sender: owner-mx-list@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU X-Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx Subject: SYSLCK also required for MX-NEWS-GATEWAY Message-Id: <1994Apr21.161422@mccall.com> From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 16:14:22 CDT Reply-To: MX-List@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA Nntp-Posting-Host: mis1 Nntp-Posting-User: tp Lines: 33 To: MX-List@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET Another place SYSLCK is required that isn't mentioned in the instructions.txt file is the news -> mail portion of the MX-NEWS-GATEWAY contributed software. If the process running newsskim doesn't have SYSLCK, mx_site_in exits with an appropriate status, but gatenews doesn't report it. There is no indication in any log files anywhere I could find that the message didn't get mailed out. NEWSSKIM-FRAG.COM should be updated to turn on SYSLCK, and the account you're running NEWSSKIM under should be updated to have the privilege. With the DECUS UUCP setup, NEWSMGR already has setprv, but I don't know about other setups. I modified it such that the two lines containing the gatenews and delete commands were replaced by: $ oldprv = f$setprv("SYSLCK") $ if .not. f$privilege("SYSLCK") $ then $ say "Insufficient privilege!" $ else $ gatenews 'file 'list_add 'list_add $ delete 'file $ endif $ oldprv = f$setprv(oldprv) This one's annoying because it leaves no tracks (gatenews doesn't check the return status of the subprocess running mx_site_in), and the other direction, mail to news, works fine, so you don't immediately realize there's a problem. -- Terry Poot The McCall Pattern Company Phone/Fax: (800)255-2762, (913)776-4041 615 McCall Road Manhattan, KS 66502, USA