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.
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Henry Spencer
U of Toronto
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