george@wciu.wciu.edu (George Peavy) (06/18/91)
I'm in the process of trying to install rn and Cnews on a Unisys 6000/51 running AT&T Unix sys V, rel 3.0, and having problems on both when the make processes report a syntax error in one of the c source files. In the meantime, my distribution copy of 'mail' which has been renamed 'lmail' with my installation of smail 2.5 has been acting mysteriously, hanging up (and not delivering mail or refusing to read waiting mail) when invoked. What's happening is that mail (sometimes smail or lmail) invokes a process which does a "sh -c /bin/smail fred", which, in turn, invokes "/bin/smail fred", which, in turn invodes "sh -c /bin/smail/fred", ad nauseum. Eventually, the whole thing times out. Additionally, I'm finding lots of "fred.lock" files in /usr/mail containing a process id number, getting there when presumably /etc/profile checks for mail at login time. This has been happening only since I tried to install Cnews, thus it appears that the Cnews installation process may have changed something, possibly an owner or a permission, but as far as I can tell, I can't find anything amiss in that area. Also, I'm not experienced enough as a C programmer to try hacking at source code, so the sources I'm working with are as I got them originally. Can any one give me some useful feedback? Thanks. George Peavy -- George Peavy (george@wciu.edu)
miket@alby6055.uucp (Mike Tehan) (06/20/91)
In January I installed Cnews on our U6000/55 running on OS 3.00 release 11.14. The only C error encountered was in libc/closeall.c. It was looking for a max open files parameter that wasn't available in our libraries so I hard coded it to 20. That exhausted my expertise in C. So far, so good. I also changed the shell programs "spacefor" and "anne.jones". In "spacefor" the df command output did not match what the awk script expected and in "anne.jones" the format of the date output needed tweaking. I believe there were no other changes necessary to get Cnews running. I will attempt to send you these sources (they're short) by mail. I will also send my "build.def" to establish a common reference point. Cnews (and the primitive readnews that came with it) have been working well since we started our news feeds from UUNET. I hope this helps with your Cnews install. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tehan Unisys, Albany, NY via UUCP: uunet!alby6055!miket Any opinions expressed are my own personal views, Not necessarily shared or supported by my employer. Any "facts" I provide are based on the best infor- mation available to me (all of which is suspect given my advanced age and involvement with Unix). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------