[news.software.b] missing newline in Cnews logfile

det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (03/24/91)

Ever since i patched my Cnews to 15-Dec-1990 my log file is lacking a
newline at the end of all articles that are *not* being forwarded to
another site.  If the article is being forwarded, the system name is
appended to the end of the line and all looks normal, but otherwise i
get one *very* long line in my log file.  Is this a bug or did i screw
something up?

For example,

forwarded article:
Mar 22 09:18:35.000 pwcs + <1991Mar20.070141.19740@athena.mit.edu> nightowl

terminal article:
Mar 22 09:18:35.000 pwcs + <1991Mar20.070141.19740@athena.mit.edu> Mar 22 0\
9:18:35.000 pwcs + <1991Mar20.070141.19740@athena.mit.edu> Mar 22 09:18:35.\
000 pwcs + <1991Mar20.070141.19740@athena.mit.edu>  .... etc

(i just replicated a single log line for the example)

derek
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Derek "Tigger" Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG -- U of MN Women's Lax
I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need
your advice.  -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (03/24/91)

In article <1991Mar24.021243.17953@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>Ever since i patched my Cnews to 15-Dec-1990 my log file is lacking a
>newline at the end of all articles that are *not* being forwarded to
>another site...

This is a new one on us.  It definitely doesn't happen here; I just checked.
-- 
"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

nealpo@ism.isc.com (Neal Pollack) (04/02/91)

In article <1991Mar24.080545.28504@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1991Mar24.021243.17953@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>>Ever since i patched my Cnews to 15-Dec-1990 my log file is lacking a
>>newline at the end of all articles that are *not* being forwarded to
>>another site...
>
>This is a new one on us.  It definitely doesn't happen here; I just checked.
>-- 
>"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


I noticed the same behavior.  Unless there was a sitename for forwarding
after the message id of the log file line, then no newline appeared, and the
log file looked very funny indeed.

I do not currently have the problem, and can not recall what fixed it.
I simply wanted to state that I have also seen this behavior.

Neal

det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (04/04/91)

nealpo@ism.isc.com (Neal Pollack) writes:

>In article <1991Mar24.080545.28504@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>In article <1991Mar24.021243.17953@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>>>Ever since i patched my Cnews to 15-Dec-1990 my log file is lacking a
>>>newline at the end of all articles that are *not* being forwarded to
>>>another site...
>>
>>This is a new one on us.  It definitely doesn't happen here; I just checked.

>I noticed the same behavior.  Unless there was a sitename for forwarding
>after the message id of the log file line, then no newline appeared, and the
>log file looked very funny indeed.

>I do not currently have the problem, and can not recall what fixed it.
>I simply wanted to state that I have also seen this behavior.

Thank you, thank you!  I don't feel like a compleat (sic) idiot now!  My
problem disappeared after I 1) recompiled and reinstalled the original version
of Cnews that I had, 2) decreased my ULIMIT to a (supposedly) legal setting
(6MB), and 3) installed all of the patches up to, but not including the 1991
patches, and compiled and installed.  I don't know which of the above affected
the problem since they were all done at essentially the same time.  But i 
suffer no more from that silly little problem.
-- 
Derek "Tigger" Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG -- U of MN Women's Lax
I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need
your advice.  -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots