nntp@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (02/04/91)
A new release of NNTP for Unix is available via ftp from gazette.bcm.tmc.edu and lib.tmc.edu. Look in the public directory for nntp.1.5.11.tar and a compressed version of the same file. A patch kit to turn nntp version 1.5.10 in to 1.5.11 will be available in these newsgroups later this week and via the archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu. However, the fully patched sources will only be available via anonymous ftp from the site mentioned above. Here is a list of fixes/enhancements in the new release. Fixes to spawn.c and batch.c for those system that need execle() to specifically call /bin/sh to exectute a sh script. [All CNEWS sites running System V.] Fixes to the timeout code to make it all work the GNUS. [leres@ee.lbl.gov] Fixes to nntpxmit to support CNEWS batch file formats which contain the name of the article file and its message id. [flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu] Fixes to nntpxmit to not mistake the delete character in an article as an EOF indication. [pst+@ir.stanford.edu] Added the $HOME environmental variable in the new environment provided to a child process. [steve@avalon.dartmouth.edu] Added rudimentary support to clientlib for TLI. [sob@tmc.edu] Changes to inews to optionally use gethostbyname() to get canonical hostname as needed. [jeff@ee.lbl.gov] Changed extern int timezone to extern long timezone in time.c. [pk@unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de] Reset SIGCLD before calling serve for WIN/TCP users on System V. [wescott%micky%sauron%ncrcae@ncrlnk.dayton.ncr.com] Changed references to "server" in clientlib.c to "nntpserver" to avoid a conflict with WIN/TCP. [rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil] Defining DBZ will take care of defining DBM. [tgt@cblpf.att.com] Some minor changes to nntpxfer to remove the risk of doing an update when it's not necessary. [ccc141j@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au, corbin@utep-vaxa.uucp] Changes to nntpxmit to correctly utilize LOG_DEBUG when LOG is defined and not when it isn't. [alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu] Change order of setuid/setgid in spawn.c and batch.c to execute setgid first. [apple.com!arc!chet] Provided an optional and untested way to use a dynamically resizing article array in the server. This will allow large numbers of articles in each group without giving nntp heartburn. [leres@ee.lbl.gov] The TLI support is probably non-functional as is the support for WIN/TCP. When NNTP 1.6 comes out these features will work.