miw@bunyip.cc.uq.oz (Mark Williams) (10/05/89)
gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) writes: >Well, I naively patched my sources, which were at patchlevel 17, and got >a very corrupted situation in my /usr/spool/news/* directories. Here's >the sort of thing I found: [horrendous situation caused by a corrupt active file] I had this problem, too. I got around it by blowing away my active file entirely, running expire -r, and then putting a current checkgroups through the thing. The make update script failed because a regular expression was too long for ULTRIX 3.1 sed. I also had to back out one of the patches to ifuncs.c Apart from that, everything ran smoothly. :-) Mark Williams