rja@edison.cho.ge.com (rja) (08/09/90)
I've just recently installed C News here and things are generally working very well. I've spent the past two days trying to get NNTP working between this machine (Ultrix 3.1 VAX, sort of like 4.2 BSD) and a VMS machine running ANU News 5.9c, Wollongong TCP/IP, and VMS 5. The networking part seems fine either over TCP/IP or DECnet. I can read articles on Edison from the VMS side using the "nntp_client" program supplied with ANU News, as long as I just read a group consecutively and don't try to use the ARTICLE command to retrieve by message-id. If I try to use article to retrieve by message-id, I always get a "article doesn't exist" kind of message back even though the article id is in the history file on Edison and the article is physically present in the location indicated by the history file and is world readable. I've glanced at the code and my suspcions lie in the dbm code which looks in the history file for the article id because Ultrix 3 is different (read broken) in several other ways from normal 4.2 BSD. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the defines correct in common/conf.h but am certainly willing to entertain any ideas. If anyone has done or tried to do this sort of thing, please drop me a note or post here. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Internet (vastly preferable) : rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM UUCP (if you've got no choice): ...uunet!virginia!edison!rja ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) (08/09/90)
In article <1990Aug8.193355.26981@edison.cho.ge.com> rja <rja@edison.cho.ge.com> writes: >I've just recently installed C News here and things are generally working >very well. I've spent the past two days trying to get NNTP working between >this machine (Ultrix 3.1 VAX, sort of like 4.2 BSD) and a VMS machine running >ANU News 5.9c, Wollongong TCP/IP, and VMS 5. > >{description of how access to history file fails deleted} >I've glanced at the code and my suspcions lie in the dbm code which looks in >the history file for the article id because Ultrix 3 is different (read broken) >in several other ways from normal 4.2 BSD. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the >defines correct in common/conf.h but am certainly willing to entertain any >ideas. > I also had a problem when I added nntp on top a an already running Cnews system. I had built the Cnews system using the supplied dbz routines (don't have any form of dbm on my Sys V R3). I tried using gdbm with nntp, but it couldn't read the dbz Cnews history file. I had to use the dbz routines from Cnews in nntp to get it to read the Cnews history file. In general, I'd say if you have trouble accessing the history file with different programs, make sure they use *identical* dbm code. > -- Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.2 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb.bitnet WIN/TCP for 3B2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com