earle@lorien.smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) (10/03/85)
I have only recently installed 2.10.2 on our (Sun 2/170) system,
so if this bug has already been found, please refrain from
excessive flaming.
When using expire, I was getting constant crashes. I found :
expire calls pathinit(), which contains the following code:
#if INEW || READ
struct utsname ubuf;
uname(&ubuf);
FULLSYSNAME = AllocCpy(ubuf.nodename);
#endif INEW || READ
The Makefile entry for expire ref's epathinit.o, which compiles
pathinit with -DEXP, not INEW or READ. So, later in expire.c
it calls hread (in header.c). In hread we find :
strcpy(buf, FULLSYSNAME);
and since the #if above is not #if INEW || READ || EXP, uname
never gets executed, FULLSYSNAME is nil, and strcpy yields
barf city. I believe redefining the #if would solve this problem.
In addition, you must also add the lines (similar to entries for rnews
and inews) of the form :
#ifdef EXP
#include "params.h"
#endif EXP
A general question :
Without having looked at the source (yet), can anyone tell me
(in ten words or less) why, when replying to a news article,
does the software pluck the Reply-To field out when formatting the
To: address for mail instead of the Path: field? Is this a controlable
build-time option? Does it expect pathalias or something to exist?
A few people here have asked me why, when they try to reply to an article,
they get Returned Mail back with "unknown host", so I looked
at the mail message and found the above.
Thanks.
Greg Earle
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