lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) (06/16/89)
In article <182300001@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >The patched NNTP sources in nntpdiffs/src appear to be missing patch #3 >in misc.c. Indeed. The README file says that the src directory contains 1.5 source (which I gather is what Geoff is still running). I upgraded our server to 1.5.5 and took the opportunity to create context diffs for C news while I had a vanilla 1.5.5 around, and Geoff agreed to include those in the release. A vanilla NNTP 1.5.5 (the very one I generated the diffs from) can be found for FTP on neat.ai.toronto.edu (128.100.1.65). The NNTP diffs for C news are also there, and we will try to keep up with NNTP releases until the C news stuff gets #ifdef-ed properly in the official release, should that ever happen. Remember to use binary mode. -rw-r--r-- 1 root 20024 Jun 10 07:13 pub/nntp.1.5.5.Cdiffs -rw-r--r-- 1 root 208921 Jun 8 13:51 pub/nntp.1.5.5.tar.Z Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (06/16/89)
C News installed with little pain. It did take some time to discover that directories had to be manually created in /usr/spool/news/out.going for each machine in the sys file. The patched NNTP sources in nntpdiffs/src appear to be missing patch #3 in misc.c. I worked around that by fetching virgin nntp 1.5 from ucbvax, applying patches 1 to 5 from watson.bcm.tmc.com, and then applying the Cnews NNTP patches. Btw, the DNS has only MX records for tmc.com (I've since misplaced their IP address). Paul Pomes UIUC-CSO