jepeway@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Chris Jepeway) (11/11/88)
We're getting 0 length articles when our news partition (which cannot be increased in size) fills. I've heard that there are patches to the nntp software to refuse articles for which there's no disk space. Can anyone point me to them? Or disabuse me of the myth that such software exists? Thanks Ever, Chris Jepeway UTK CS Dept
sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (11/20/88)
In article <636@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> jepeway@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Chris Jepeway) writes: >We're getting 0 length articles when our news partition (which cannot >be increased in size) fills. I've heard that there are patches to the >nntp software to refuse articles for which there's no disk space. >Can anyone point me to them? Or disabuse me of the myth that such >software exists? > >Thanks Ever, >Chris Jepeway >UTK CS Dept There are three official patches to nntp 1.5 that are available. All are available via anonymous ftp from bcm.tmc.edu [128.249.2.1] or from the archive-server. For info on the archive-server, send mail to "archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu" with a Subject: line of "help". Here are what the three patches do: Patch #1 Problems: 1. strcascmp.c will not compile on System V if there is no typedef for an unsigned char. This is a common problem with many versions of System V. 2. main.c will not compile under EXCELAN because a structure is used before it is defined. 3. SIGCLD in System V is NOT the same as SIGCHLD under BSD. 4. actbuf must be explicitly defined under System V or free(actbuf) will core dump. 5. System V compilers do not tolerate including the same include file more than once. Patch #2 Description: 1. Arguements are reversed in one line in ahbs.c 2. Patch #1 contained a typo in patch to strcasecmp.c 3. nntp_awk script fails on entries created by nntpxmit under System V. Patch #3 Description: 1. Under the history mechanism that does not use DBM, files are not closed following use. This causes the process to run of file descriptors & nntpd to abort. The nntp log file will show this with "No more files" messages. 2. There was no graceful way for any version of nntp to stop a transfer when there was no space left in the news SPOOLDIR. This can cause many aborted connections and sometimes lost news Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Baylor College of Medicine Olan uucp: {rice,killer,hoptoad}!academ!sob Barber Opinions expressed are only mine.