[1554] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Athena Redhat installation problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Jan 6 14:44:00 1997
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, usenet@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 06 Jan 1997 14:43:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:29:35 -0500
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> It appears that every time someone installs Redhat-Athena and selects
> all packages, the machine starts sending mail to news@mit.edu twice
> every night. I have not confirmed this claim by doing an installation
> myself, but there is definitely an INN package in /redhat on
> small-gods, and some of the reponses to a recent set of requests from
> Martha indicate that people did use the SIPB installation.
Oh? Where is there an INN package in /redhat? I can't find it...
> This problem needs to be fixed very quickly, and it needs to be a
> priority for linux-dev that this not happen in new release or when
> people update the RPMs on small-gods. You can make a local alias for
> news on Redhat-Athena machines or take whatever other measures are
> necessary, but it's not acceptable for this problem to continue
> cropping up.
You are correct -- the proper fix is to make "news" be a local alias.
-derek
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