abrams@cass.amd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (02/09/91)
I have built trn on my Sun3 (OS4.1) and it reads news beautifully.
However, I have encountered one problem, and have been unable to locate
the cause of it.
My machines name is dan.amd.bnl.gov, but when I post an
article that machine the From: line says "From abrams@dan.tmc.edu".
Grepping the trn source for "dan.amd" produces:
Pnews: '') sitename="dan.amd" ;;
Pnews: sitename="dan.amd"
Rnmail: '') sitename="dan.amd" ;;
Rnmail: undef) sitename="dan.amd" ;;
config.h: #define SITENAME "dan.amd"
config.sh: sitename='dan.amd'
and a grep for "bnl.gov":
Pnews: sitename=${sitename}.bnl.gov
Rnmail: sitename=${sitename}.bnl.gov
config.h: #define OURDOMAIN "bnl.gov"
config.sh: domain='bnl.gov'
And in NNTP/common/conf.h: #define DOMAIN "bnl.gov"
I've defined HOSTFILE in config.h as dan.amd.bnl.gov
#define HOSTFILE "/usr/local/lib/usenetname"
I then thought that I could find tmc.edu in either trn's or nntp's source.
All that I turned up were comments!
grep tmc.edu Nntp/*/*
Nntp/common/README.SYSV: from archi...
Nntp/common/README.SYSV: If you hav...
Nntp/doc/nntpd.dst: Stan Barber (In...
Nntp/inews/inews.c: * Send bug rep...
Nntp/server/main.c: * (Internet: ...
Nntp/server/misc.c: * by Stan Barb...
Nntp/server/misc.c: * written by S...
Nntp/support/nntp_awk: # Stan Barbe...
Nntp/xfer/nntpxfer.c: * Stan Barbe...
#dan<su 11> grep tmc.edu Trn/*
Trn/trn.1: and is now under the...
Trn/trn.1.02: and is now under ...
Question: Where is the tmc.edu coming from in my From: line?
I had to login on this machine in order to post an article with the
correct return address.
Any clues as to what to do or what to look for would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.abrams@dan.amd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (02/13/91)
Thanks to a clue from Don "Truck" Lewis of Harris Semiconductor, I was lead to the solution to the problem. > Check the definition of DOMAIN in Nntp/common/conf.h. Be sure that it > was correct when you built inews. > -- > Don "Truck" Lewis Harris Semiconductor Domain was defined correctly, however a close reading of the docs concerning DOMAIN showed me what the solutions was. By changing my hostname.le0 file to contain my fully qualified name, and undefining DOMAIN in common/conf.h, the From: line was corrected. I still do not know how tmc.edu got into my From: line. What the hell, it's working. -- INTERNET: abrams@bnl.gov |/ | ^ BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET |\ |__ /-\
abrams@dan.ccd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (05/04/91)
I was running mthreads (trn 1.0.1), when it began be run amock,
filling up mt.log. I have since upgraded to trn v1.0.2, and mthreads now
dumps core or produces the output shown below.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
mthreads -z -vvvv
X...................#..#..#....#.#.............E!eeee###eeee####e######eeee
e####e#eee#eee##eeeeeeeeeeeeeee#..eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#ee
eeeeeeee#eeee#eeeee#eeeeeeee#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#eee#e##e#ee#ee##eee
eeeeeeeeeee########eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeee#e#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#eee#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeee#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#eeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee##eeeeeeee#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee#eeeee#eeeee#eeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeee#e#eeee#eeeeeee#eeeee#eee#eee#e#eeeeee#ee##dan<44>
^^^^^^
Note the displaced prompt.
Mt.log is filled with messages such as:
May 3 11:35 comp.graphics: Invalid author in data file: -18648 [0]
:
:
May 3 13:28 comp.sys.atari.st: Missing reference line! [36361]
(many, MANY of these)
:
May 3 13:29 misc.consumers: Reference ended in '*'.
and so on and on .....
Can anyone tell me what is happening here? Is Trn screwing up
or has the news gone bad? I'm running remote trn on a Sun4 (OS 4.1.1)
using a Decstation 5000 as the news server.
Thanx in advance,
--
INTERNET: abrams@bnl.gov |/ | ^
BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET |\ |__ /-\bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) (05/06/91)
In article <1991May3.195034.9911@bnlux1.bnl.gov> abrams@dan.ccd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) writes: > Can anyone tell me what is happening here? Is Trn screwing up >or has the news gone bad? I'm running remote trn on a Sun4 (OS 4.1.1) >using a Decstation 5000 as the news server. Well I would suspect that some news article/directory is bad. I had a similar occurance. Mthreads would get to one point, and stop and leave the rest unprocessed. I ran mthreads with about 3 or 4 v's on the option line. Each extra v forces an extra level, and more output in the log. When I found where the output of the log stopped, I checked that group and found no problems. So I looked at active 2 to find out which newsgroup was to be processed next after the last one that was processed. When I went to that directory I found problems. One I found was that instead of a file .threads I had a directory called .threads. I found one or two other corrupt portions there. Rm'd the offending files and directories and all was fine. This may not be your problem, but it sounds similar. -- Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP
njs@watson.ibm.com (Nicholas J. Simicich) (05/07/91)
I had something like this happen to me when mthreads was in the middle of a pass during a power hit. I believe that lots of database file pieces were partially from one generation, and partially from another because the power hit wasn't nice enough to occur immediately after a sync. I played around with the -z option for a while, and then did a mthreads !all followed by mthreads all, and things have been much happier. Nick Simicich (NJS at WATSON, njs@watson.ibm.com) -SSI AOWI #3958, HSA #318 Words of wisdom from Zippy: Don't hit me!! I'm in the Twilight Zone!!!