From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9973 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problem with SOUP packing files Date: 19 Feb 1997 02:17:24 +0000 Sender: zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149917 21637 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA22549 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 17:27:20 -0800 Original-Received: from mail-c.bcc.ac.uk (mail-c.bcc.ac.uk [144.82.100.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 02:07:20 +0100 Original-Received: from link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk by mail-c.bcc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:07:11 +0000 Original-To: gnus In-Reply-To: Eze Ogwuma's message of Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:53:29 +0000 (GMT) Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.14/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9973 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9973 Some of the discussion on this occurred off the list; so if anyone is interested, I found that setting the "shell-file-name" variable for emacs on the server to "/bin/sh" solved the problem. Csh, Ksh and Tcsh didn't work. Eze Ogwuma writes: > Hi, > > I'm using SOUP to transfer stuff between machines. Each time I've used > G-s-p to pack the SOUP files on the server, Gnus has exited with the > message "Couldn't pack packet". A tgz file has been left in my home > directory but the files in ~/SoupBrew are not deleted. > > The server uses Gnus v5.3 > > The tgz file is correctly incorporated by Gnus on my home system. > > Can someone please tell me what's going? > > Thanks. > -- Eze Ogwuma