Re: auto-faq help....?

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Paul W Schleck KD3FU (pschleck@gonix.gonix.com)
Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:22:14 -0500 (CDT)


Your mail did reach the recipients of auto-faq-users, but I was out of
town for the last few days (and I guess no one else on the list knew the
answer or wanted to venture one). I'll reply directly and on
auto-faq-users sometime this week.

Paul W. Schleck
auto-faq-maint@novia.net

auto-faq Maintainer

>
> I posted this to the auto-faq list, but it didn't seem to work (returned
> ccMail..?) so hopefully this isn't too off topic...
>
> If anyone has info on the auto-faq list particulars, or hints to why my
> FAQ doesn't want to post, I'd be forever grateful. I'll even send you a
> *magic cookie* (your choice of flavour).
>
> Particulars:
>
> auto-faq: beta3.3 (have to use perl 5+)
> uname -a: taygeta taygeta 4_52 UMIPS mips
> auto-faq returns: <nothing>
>
> During the final testing stages, my FAQs looked good in the faq.out, and
> in a *.test group. However, the acid-test of auto-posting failed.
>
> Here's the symptoms:
> cron fails silently; my cron mail simply refers to my command, with no output
> the "seqfile=/some/directory/in/my/home/faqname.seq" never appears
>
> Both the auto-faq and faq-config files are in my $HOME, for simplicity.
> I do not have write-permissions on the directory where the FAQ's are kept.
>
> I've put auto-faq in a shell wrapper to see if it's actually being
> executed, but I think it is, otherwise cron would complain, no?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Jon D. Verne <jverne@acs.ryerson.ca>
>
>



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