rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) (06/23/91)
This is a fix for date headers in Coherent Cnews. The latest Cnews will drop articles that do not have valid RFC date headers. Coherent Cnews has date header problems, and this is a fix. Save the script below as rfcdate, and put it in /bin. Do: chmod +x rfcdate chown bin rfcdate chgrp bin rfcdate ------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # Produces RFC822/1036 compliant date for Cnews # Rick Kelly 6/20/91 set `date -u` defdate="$3 $2 $5 $4" echo $defdate | sed -e s/'199'/'9'/ -e s2/':'..// ------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------ cd /usr/lib/newsbin/inject edit anne.jones and look for the line that says: date="`date -u`" # Coherent Change this line to: date="`rfcdate`" # Coherent You are now ready to start posting again. Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP