[news.software.b] BNews 2.11.19/Ultrix/DBM

oneill@bass.bu.edu (Brian V O'Neill) (07/21/90)

I am having several problems installing B 2.11.19 on an Ultrix 3.1 system.
When I first compiled it, I had numerous problems with the DBM package
already existing, so I grabbed GDBM and compiled with that. Here are the
current problems:

	1) Expire complains dbm_store fails. Using expire -r to recreate the
	database results in the .dir and .pag files being equal length,
	around 24k.

	2) inews fails completely with a segmentation fault. Using inews
	from 2.11.18 works, allowing posting and incoming news to be
	processed.

	3) The Path: line is wrong. For example, if I post (using Pnews)
	from a system which hostname responds to as "swan.ulowell.edu", but
	which is known to UUCP as "ulowell", I get the path

		Path: swan!swan.ulowell.edu

	Note my username does not appear, and the "swan" at the front is a
	UUCP registered name. The path should be

		ulowell!oneill or swan.ulowell.edu!oneill

I have used gdbm for other things and not had a problem. Why should the
Ultrix DBM fail in the compile?

Any and all help is appreciated.

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