wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) (07/13/90)
NNTP 1.5.9, in spawn.c, tries to open a temporary file in /usr/spool/news/.tmp. Bad move. I don't run B news. (Never had it, never will.) I don't have a /usr/spool/news/.tmp. Assuming the universal availability of it as a temporary area is a bad idea. As is assuming the use of /usr/spool/news as the news spool area. Bill Wisner <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775 bnug, dude yeah .
ken@sdd.hp.com (Ken Stone) (07/14/90)
In article <1990Jul13.033611.2849@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes: >NNTP 1.5.9, in spawn.c, tries to open a temporary file in >/usr/spool/news/.tmp. Bad move. > >I don't run B news. (Never had it, never will.) I don't have a >/usr/spool/news/.tmp. Assuming the universal availability of it as a >temporary area is a bad idea. As is assuming the use of >/usr/spool/news as the news spool area. Patch 9 seems to full of little goodies ... I find the following: * Hardcoding of /usr/spool/news (really bad idea ... in post.c and spawn.c) * Use of /usr/spool/news/.tmp and /usr/spool/news/.bad (not in Cnews) * Trashing the environment if SETPROCTITLE is defined. Really bothers Cnews's inews since its a shell script. -- Ken
nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) (07/14/90)
ken@sdd.hp.com (Ken Stone) writes: > * Trashing the environment if SETPROCTITLE is defined. Really bothers > Cnews's inews since its a shell script. So _that's_ what happened! I have a perl script that is my backend inews and it really blew up when I tried using 1.5.9 (even after slipping in the 1.5.8 spawn.c). I'll undef that and see if it works then. Thanks! -- Mark Nagel UC Irvine Department of ICS +----------------------------------------+ ARPA: nagel@ics.uci.edu | N = 1 implies P = NP | UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!nagel +----------------------------------------+