grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) (05/22/86)
Since the munged articles with 0 lines issuing from hpislx are still drifting in, I worked up the following simple patch to inews.c to reject articles with Lines: 0. In any news group but control, these articles represent either a goofed posting, a software problem, or somebody trying to be clever. I think it better to reject them, and hope that a better version comes in through an alternate path... Patch to inews.c for news 2.10.3.beta - others are probably similar patch goes just before the call to insert at the tail end of main ctlcheck(); } if (mode == CREATENG) createng(); /* Determine input. */ if (mode != PROC) input(); > /* Now see if there were any lines of text in the article */ > if (header.intnumlines == 0 && !is_ctl) > xerror("%s rejected - no text lines",header.ident); /* Do the actual insertion. */ insert(); } /* * Create a newsgroup */ createng() { Oh, be sure that when you are done, that inews still has appropriate user, group, and su/sgid bits set, and that inews and rnews are still linked together - could be embarressing otherwise... -- George Robbins - now working with, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)