Q:  rc.news reports "/usr/local/etc/rc.news: (M-i)^P^L^A.Gd: not found"

A:  Bob Izenberg <bei@io.com> reports:

Here's an unlikely possibility that bit us once.  In an almost all-Sun
environment, I requested and got /bin/ksh as my shell.  When I logged
in, I got a burst of control characters and a closed connection after a
few seconds.  It turned out that ksh followed about fifteen symbolic
links to a file that had been moved/removed.

Therefore, make sure that the first line in rc.news refers to a shell
that really exists.  If you run "sh /usr/local/etc/rc.news" make sure
you don't have anything else named "sh" in your path.  (And if you
have something named "sh" in your path that isn't a Bourne Shell or
a clone, worry!)

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