henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (07/02/83)
Among the items in the "misc" directory in 2.10 was a shell file, otherwise undocumented, named "rnews.sh". This was a slightly touched-up version of something I submitted to the net a while ago: it invoked the real news system, but if something went wrong it sent the article and the error messages somewhere, so that something could be done about the problem. It contains a major bug, which I just discovered. Line 5 should read: if test -s /tmp/rnm$$ && grep -s -v '^Duplicate article ' /tmp/rnm$$ NOT if test -s /tmp/rnm$$ && grep -s -v '^Duplicate article ' The effect of the bug is that no trouble is ever reported. -- Henry Spencer U of Toronto {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry