lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) (05/30/85)
System: rn version 4.3 Patch #: 19 Priority: LOW Subject: on some systems rn can miss new newsgroups From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) Description: Some versions of inews don't create the spool directory immediately for newly created newsgroups. The routine in rn that determines the age of a newsgroup incorrectly assumes that a spool directory will be there before the first article arrives. This can cause newly created newsgroups to be skipped over in the scan for new newsgroups. Fix: From rn, say "| patch -d DIR", where DIR is your rn source directory. Outside of rn, say "cd DIR; patch <thisarticle". If you don't have the patch program, apply the following by hand, or get patch. If patch indicates that patchlevel is the wrong version, you may need to apply one or more previous patches, or the patch may already have been applied. See the patchlevel file to find out what has or has not been applied. In any event, don't continue with the patch. Index: patchlevel Prereq: 18 1c1 < Patch #: 18 --- > Patch #: 19 Index: addng.c Prereq: 4.3 *** addng.c.old Wed May 29 09:09:52 1985 --- addng.c Wed May 29 09:09:55 1985 *************** *** 1,4 ! /* $Header: addng.c,v 4.3 85/05/01 11:34:41 lwall Exp $ * * $Log: addng.c,v $ * Revision 4.3 85/05/01 11:34:41 lwall --- 1,4 ----- ! /* $Header: addng.c,v 4.3.1.2 85/05/29 09:06:24 lwall Exp $ * * $Log: addng.c,v $ * Revision 4.3.1.2 85/05/29 09:06:24 lwall *************** *** 1,6 /* $Header: addng.c,v 4.3 85/05/01 11:34:41 lwall Exp $ * * $Log: addng.c,v $ * Revision 4.3 85/05/01 11:34:41 lwall * Baseline for release with 4.3bsd. * --- 1,12 ----- /* $Header: addng.c,v 4.3.1.2 85/05/29 09:06:24 lwall Exp $ * * $Log: addng.c,v $ + * Revision 4.3.1.2 85/05/29 09:06:24 lwall + * New newsgroups without spool directories incorrectly classified as "ancient". + * + * Revision 4.3.1.1 85/05/10 11:30:50 lwall + * Branch for patches. + * * Revision 4.3 85/05/01 11:34:41 lwall * Baseline for release with 4.3bsd. * *************** *** 101,106 ART_NUM ngsize; { char tst[128]; sprintf(tst, ngsize ? "%s/%s/1" : "%s/%s" ,spool,getngdir(ngnam)); if (stat(tst,&filestat) < 0) --- 107,113 ----- ART_NUM ngsize; { char tst[128]; + long time(); sprintf(tst, ngsize ? "%s/%s/1" : "%s/%s" ,spool,getngdir(ngnam)); if (stat(tst,&filestat) < 0) *************** *** 104,110 sprintf(tst, ngsize ? "%s/%s/1" : "%s/%s" ,spool,getngdir(ngnam)); if (stat(tst,&filestat) < 0) ! return 0L; /* not there, assume ancient */ else return filestat.st_mtime; } --- 111,117 ----- sprintf(tst, ngsize ? "%s/%s/1" : "%s/%s" ,spool,getngdir(ngnam)); if (stat(tst,&filestat) < 0) ! return (ngsize ? 0L : time(0)); /* not there, assume something good */ else return filestat.st_mtime; }