russell@CCU1.AUKUNI.AC.NZ (07/09/90)
I am trying to install news software version 2.11 on an 4D/240S running 3.2.2. I used the USG option and did a make then a make install as in the installation instructions. I then did a make update which warned me that some news groups needed to be flagged as moderated and produce a script to perform the updates. The script used inews -C to perform the modifications but the script failed with 'memory error' on each invocation of inews. When I tried typing the commands by hand I got a segmentation fault in inews. Can anybody give any suggestions as to what is wrong, or perhaps send me their localize file that was used to customise news at their site. I also tried a trick I have used on other software, tell the make file to use BSD options and add -I/usr/include/bsd -lbsd to the cc options. This failed to find sys/timeb.h. Cheers Russell.
jdt@voodoo.UUCP (Jim Tomlinson) (07/18/90)
In article <9007082132.AA09124@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell@CCU1.AUKUNI.AC.NZ writes: > >I am trying to install news software version 2.11 on an 4D/240S running 3.2.2. > >The script used inews -C to perform the modifications but the script failed >with 'memory error' on each invocation of inews. When I tried typing the >commands by hand I got a segmentation fault in inews. > Same here. Seems that invoking inews in any manner other than with no args (which results in a usage summary) dumps core. When invoked by 'cat [spooled news file] | /usr/local/bin/rnews' (rnews is a symbolic link to inews), dbx says we lost it in chkfile (chkfile's parameter, "/usr/local/lib/news/active", has the right permissions, and inews is setuid and setgid). Anyway, dbx seems sorely confused, as the line number it gives is meaningless, and it says chkfile was called by _dwmultu, which is in turn the top of the calling stack. At any rate, I'll let that mystery remain unsolved if someone has a localize.sh that works for them on the 4D architecture. Thanx. - jdt -- Jim Tomlinson P.O.Box 24346 \ BoGART Project M/S 6M-17 \ "Give me some of that Boeing Computer Services Seattle, WA 98124 \ voodoo thang!" - Colin James (206) 234-7741 ....uunet!bcstec!voodoo!jdt \