dmose@hazy.math.uoregon.edu (Dan Mosedale) (03/01/90)
Running rn compiled for NNTP (rrn) using patchlevel 44. Sun 3, running SunOS 4.0. Bug #1: With each invocation an rrnact.* file is created in /tmp. This file is _never_ deleted. Noticed this one day when I saw about 400K of such files up to a month old sitting in /tmp. Bug#2: In the newsgroups script, the "Unsubscribed but listed in .newsrc" doesn't list anything at all. After a bit of experimentation, I figured out that the sed(1) command which is supposed to delete all of the lines in .newsrc which don't end with a ! in fact deletes every single line in .newsrc. A recommendation: How about having the 'v' show patchlevel as well as rn.c version. This seems to be pretty relevant! Does anyone have any fixes for the above? Is a new official patch due soon? -dmose@math.uoregon.edu
nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) (03/01/90)
dmose@hazy.math.uoregon.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes: >Bug #1: > With each invocation an rrnact.* file is created in /tmp. This > file is _never_ deleted. Noticed this one day when I saw about > 400K of such files up to a month old sitting in /tmp. Having gone through this myself, I'll answer this one... You must have gotten your sources from uunet -- they are not patched correctly. To get the real rn pl44 sources, go directly to the source (I believe bcm.tmc.edu). Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. >Bug#2: > In the newsgroups script, the "Unsubscribed but listed in .newsrc" > doesn't list anything at all. After a bit of experimentation, I > figured out that the sed(1) command which is supposed to delete all > of the lines in .newsrc which don't end with a ! in fact deletes > every single line in .newsrc. Unsure, but this may be fixed in the real pl44 sources as well. -- Mark Nagel UC Irvine Department of ICS +----------------------------------------+ ARPA: nagel@ics.uci.edu | You are in a twisty maze of little | UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!nagel | newsgroups, all looking alike. |
pjg@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) (03/01/90)
In article <25EC8B55.8934@paris.ics.uci.edu>, nagel@ics (Mark Nagel) writes: 'dmose@hazy.math.uoregon.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes: ' '>[about two bugs] 'Having gone through this myself, I'll answer this one... You must 'have gotten your sources from uunet -- they are not patched 'correctly. To get the real rn pl44 sources, go directly to the 'source (I believe bcm.tmc.edu). Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. nope, i got mine from bmc and had the same problem. however if this means there's another version on bcm i'll check it out.
spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) (03/02/90)
In article <1990Feb28.230931.6490@cs.uoregon.edu> dmose@hazy.math.uoregon.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:
<Bug#2:
< In the newsgroups script, the "Unsubscribed but listed in .newsrc"
< doesn't list anything at all. After a bit of experimentation, I
< figured out that the sed(1) command which is supposed to delete all
< of the lines in .newsrc which don't end with a ! in fact deletes
< every single line in .newsrc.
I changed to use grep which fixed it.
Here's a diff
*** newsgroups Mon Dec 18 12:01:41 1989
--- /usr/local/bin//newsgroups Wed Feb 28 15:16:02 1990
***************
*** 65,71 ****
read tmp
/bin/echo ""
/bin/echo "Unsubscribed but mentioned in .newsrc:"
! /bin/sed < $dotdir/.newsrc \
! -e "/$1.*!/"'s/^\([^!]*\)!.*$/\1/p' \
! -e 'd' | \
/bin/sort | $pager
--- 65,70 ----
read tmp
/bin/echo ""
/bin/echo "Unsubscribed but mentioned in .newsrc:"
! grep "$1.*!" < $dotdir/.newsrc | \
! sed -e 's/^\([^!]*\)!.*$/\1/p' | \
/bin/sort | $pager
->Spike
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The RN patches (#41-#44) are on bcm.tmc.edu. The patched RN kit is on
lib.tmc.edu. Look in the public directory in each place.
The next set of patches will be out about 4 weeks after NNTP 1.5.8 happens.
[I hope to getting that out March 3rd or 4th.]
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