edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) (02/08/86)
Recently I moved our news around and put things in some non-
standard places. I rebuilt the news software to reflect the changes
and installed it.
When the first batches of news came in, uuxqt logged the
execution of rnews, but THE NEWS HAD DISAPPEARED! (/dev/blackhole
strikes again!)
After much tracing I discovered the problem in unbatch. When
unbatch runs, it picks apart the batch and feeds the pieces to rnews.
The problem was that our rnews is in a wierd place not covered by
whatever PATH was in effect and the rnews was exec'ed without a full
pathname. Sloppy.
The fix was simply to build the full pathname of rnews. Here
is the diff:
*** unbatch.c.orig Fri Feb 7 17:24:11 1986
--- unbatch.c Fri Feb 7 17:22:10 1986
***************
*** 89,95
(void) sprintf(buf, "%s/%s/rnews", logdir(HOME), LIBDIR);
execlp(buf, "rnews", (char *)0);
#else
! execlp("rnews", "rnews", (char *)0);
#endif
perror("rnews");
exit(1);
--- 89,100 -----
(void) sprintf(buf, "%s/%s/rnews", logdir(HOME), LIBDIR);
execlp(buf, "rnews", (char *)0);
#else
! /*
! * CHANGE - [Feb 7, edward@ukecc] Made the first
! * arguement of execlp() the full pathname of rnews.
! */
! (void) sprintf(buf, "%s/rnews", BINDIR);
! execlp(buf, "rnews", (char *)0);
#endif
perror("rnews");
exit(1);
--
Edward C. Bennett
UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward
Kentucky: The state that is being dragged, kicking and screaming,
into the 20th century.
"Goodnight M.A."