nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) (09/02/89)
pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina) writes: >I've noticed some problems with inews when using the POST command of NNTP >with C news. There are two flavors of inews, one which handles postings, >and one that closely resembles rnews (it doesn't do header processing). >One of them does too much (tries to do local user lookups), one of them not >enough (won't create Message-ID's and other headers). I had the same problems. The way I fixed it was to add a flag to the inews script called '-nosig.' If used, the signature code is ignored. Other flags could be used to bypass other parts. I hate the idea of duplicating inews, one per purpose, since so much important stuff happens in there that won't happen if the article goes straight into rnews. Whatever you do, don't pay attention to the man page for inews that says you could probably just throw formatted articles from posters (like Pnews) directly into relaynews. For one thing, relaynews simply barfs when it gets an article in a moderated group if the inews preprocessing hasn't been done. On another note, I just finished a Perl script for generating a log report slightly similar to those generated by B news report.awk. I made no changes to the logging behavior of C news, so the script requires approximately 10 minutes to run on a medium loaded Sun 4/260. That's because it has to retrieve information that wasn't stored in the logs from the history file. I used newshist to get history lines, so I'm not sure how much faster the script can get without duplicating newsgroup information in the log. If anyone would like a copy of this script, please email me. I'd like to test it and get ideas for speeding it up and/or making it more informative prior to posting it to the whole net. -- Mark Nagel UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science ARPA: nagel@ics.uci.edu UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!nagel
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (09/07/89)
In article <1989Sep1.212023.14592@paris.ics.uci.edu> nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes: >... Whatever you do, don't pay attention to >the man page for inews that says you could probably just throw >formatted articles from posters (like Pnews) directly into >relaynews. For one thing, relaynews simply barfs when it gets an >article in a moderated group if the inews preprocessing hasn't been >done. Properly formatted, spec-conforming articles will cause no problem. If your poster doesn't get the details right, then relaynews has every right to barf, and going through inews is the right thing to do. Note that the manual page does not say that the posters *do* do things right, only that they *could* and possibly *should*. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu