MRT@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle R. Thibault) (10/25/89)
Hi all!! I've recently installed News v5.8A here and I seem to be having some problems. First of all, the nntp server is *very* slow and there seem to be some posting problems. Have I missed some patches somewhere along the line? I have a whole series of messages from Geoff that claim to be patches (in SLP format) for 5.8A, but either I don't know what I'm doing (never used EDIT/SUM before) ;-), or I'm attempting to apply these to the wrong versions of the files -- if, indeed, these patches should be applied at all. Can anyone who has a working version of 5.8A (or B, if one ever came out), explain to me if there were patches that I'm missing or what I'm doing wrong? BTW, I ftp'd 5.8 from kuhub along with the update procedure and ran all that, so what I need to know is if there are patches that were supposed to be applied after that, and if so, which ones and are they the ones I have or do I have to find them somewhere else?? Also, I don't know if this is a fixed problem or not, but we're getting a lot of NNTP_*_1.tmp files created in our news_manager directory. Anybody have an idea about these and why they aren't going away? Is this just another part of our posting problems? Thanks in advance for any assistance!!! Michelle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle R. Thibault, Network Engineer (& grad student ;->) (503)686-4394 Univ. of Oregon, Computing Center mrt@oregon.uoregon.edu - INTERNET Eugene, Oregon 97403 mrt@oregon - BITNET
gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston) (10/27/89)
In article <9589@oregon.uoregon.edu>, MRT@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle R. Thibault) writes: > I've recently installed News v5.8A here and I seem to be having some > problems. First of all, the nntp server is *very* slow and there seem > to be some posting problems. Have I missed some patches somewhere along > the line? I have a whole series of messages from Geoff that claim to be > patches (in SLP format) for 5.8A, but either I don't know what I'm doing > (never used EDIT/SUM before) ;-), or I'm attempting to apply these to > the wrong versions of the files -- if, indeed, these patches should be > applied at all. Can anyone who has a working version of 5.8A (or B, if > one ever came out), explain to me if there were patches that I'm missing > or what I'm doing wrong? > > BTW, I ftp'd 5.8 from kuhub along with the update procedure and ran > all that, so what I need to know is if there are patches that were > supposed to be applied after that, and if so, which ones and are they > the ones I have or do I have to find them somewhere else?? > > Also, I don't know if this is a fixed problem or not, but we're > getting a lot of NNTP_*_1.tmp files created in our news_manager > directory. Anybody have an idea about these and why they aren't going > away? Is this just another part of our posting problems? The answer to most of this posting is to move to 5.9A. I have cleaned up the NNTP work, and fixed a large set of 5.8 bugs. 5.9 sources are availabel from kuhub and the 5.9A patches are also there as I understand. Geoff Huston