[news.software.nntp] "ihave" problem with nntp on SPARC under SunOS 4.1 - NNTP 1.5.10

ramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) (12/16/90)

Thanks to those of you who offered suggestions.

There were two major problems.  First, I missed the fact that there was a 
"both" option to nntp_access.  In the access file itself it is very clear 
that "read implies xfer" :-).

Second, if you define DBZ and CNEWS but don't define DBM in conf.h you end 
up with nntp trying to use the USGHIST option of creating a histfile.  The
problem stems from some code in the server/misc.c gethistent routine that
checks to see if NDBM or DBM is defined and, if not, defines USGHIST. So,
I defined DBM and things seem to work. 


-ED

-- 
-Ed Ramsey    User Services Manager, NPIRS, Purdue University
              ramsey@Purdue.edu !purdue!ramsey (317) 494-0442