lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) (11/18/89)
After spending a couple of weeks getting C News working to my satisfaction last June, I was reluctant to apply the many patches that followed. I finally had some time and applied all of the patches up to and including the most recent one. I also changed my dbz to use the recently posted version (1.9). I'm now no longer rejecting many of the duplicates arriving from my two feeds. Rather than spend a lot of time tracking this down, I'm hoping someone can direct me where to look. The only dups that are being rejected only have lower case characters to the right of the "@" in the Message-ID. The case to the left of the "@" doesn't seem to matter. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb@vicom.com
zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (11/18/89)
>After spending a couple of weeks getting C News working to my satisfaction >finally had some time and applied all of the patches up to and including the >most recent one. I also changed my dbz to use the recently posted version >(1.9). > >I'm now no longer rejecting many of the duplicates arriving from my two feeds. I expect that you may find that this problem has fixed itself (since expire ran). Newer versions of C news rfc822ize message ids before storing them. Since dbz doesn't actually store the message id, you need to rebuild the hash table when upgrading from older versions. Check that CNEWS is defined in dbz and that you are linking with this version. Then do a mkdbm or an expire to rebuild the hash table. I run the latest version of C News + dbz 1.9 here w/o any such problems. -- Jon Zeeff <zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Branch Technology <zeeff@b-tech.mi.org> It's 1989. Does your software support the ISO 8859 character sets?
coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) (11/19/89)
lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes: >After spending a couple of weeks getting C News working to my satisfaction >last June, I was reluctant to apply the many patches that followed. I know the feeling. I've got lots of little patches (the logging patch to relaynews, numerous hacks on inews and anne.jones, etc.) to reinstall. The 13-Nov patch kicked me over the edge and got me patching again, plus installing dbz. Of course, I happened to pick the day that brutus developed hardware problems and crashed five or six times while I was rebuilding history :-(. >I'm now no longer rejecting many of the duplicates arriving from my two feeds. >Rather than spend a lot of time tracking this down, I'm hoping someone can >direct me where to look. The only dups that are being rejected only have >lower case characters to the right of the "@" in the Message-ID. The case to >the left of the "@" doesn't seem to matter. If you mean that NNTP is no longer rejecting the duplicates, the cause may well be that NNTP (1.5.6) does not by default understand RFC822-izing message-ids. I think 1.5.7 understands the 822-ize code, but if you're still running 1.5.6 (I am, it's another case of avoiding the patch for now) there's a patch written by Felix Lee that inserts the 822 code in nntp. I can send anyone interested a copy, or post it if there's wide interest. --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1989 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well. New NNTP connections always available! Send mail if you're interested.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/20/89)
In article <1989Nov17.202510.310@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes: >I'm now no longer rejecting many of the duplicates arriving from my two feeds. >Rather than spend a lot of time tracking this down, I'm hoping someone can >direct me where to look. The only dups that are being rejected only have >lower case characters to the right of the "@" in the Message-ID... Sigh. The problem is that the current C News is the first news system that actually tries to obey the rules on case-sensitivity of message-ids, and this has caused coordination problems in all directions. You are probably running into a disagreement between C News and NNTP on this. The latest NNTP clears this up. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (11/20/89)
>>I'm now no longer rejecting many of the duplicates arriving from my two feeds. >>Rather than spend a lot of time tracking this down, I'm hoping someone can >>direct me where to look. The only dups that are being rejected only have The author of this sent me mail. Is was simply a configuration problem (ie, still picking up an old vesion of dbz). -- Jon Zeeff <zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Branch Technology <zeeff@b-tech.mi.org> It's 1989. Does your software support the ISO 8859 character sets?