HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sears@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bart Sears)
Subject: Re: one bug and one question for rn
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:49:17 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

In article <1992Jul28.170613.9983@access.usask.ca> mcdonald@skorpio.usask.ca (Shane McDonald) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.011818.2948@cello.hpl.hp.com>,
>sears@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bart Sears) writes:
>|> 
>|> From a posting from last February.  I have no idea why there has not
>|> been a patch4 to "offically" fix this problem.
>|>                                                      Bart
>
>  The version of rn that I have, which was obtained from lib.tmc.edu, is:
>
>@(#)$Id: rn.c,v 4.4.4.1 1992/02/23 21:25:39 sob PATCH_4 sob $
>Patchlevel 4
>Send bugs to rrn@lib.tmc.edu (...!uunet!bcm!rrn)
>
>  Checking the code of rn.c, I see that this problem has been fixed.
>

From the patch1 file:

>Please note that rn 4.4 on lib.tmc.edu, gazette.bcm.tmc.edu, bcm.tmc.edu
>and tmc.edu have all been updated to rn 4.4.1 and have this patch installed.

I just looked and lib.tmc.edu has rn 4.4.4.1 in kit format (all
sources) but no patches.  gazette.bcm.tmc.edu has rn 4.4.3.1 in kit
format (no patches).  bcm.tmc.edu and tmc.edu have rn 4.4.3.1 in kit
format and patches 1-3.  I could not find a "patch4" file anywhere.
It looks like the sources on gazette.bcm.tmc.edu, bcm.tmc.edu and
tmc.edu are out of date.  I will send a bug report to rrn@lib.tmc.edu.

						Bart
From: jchdr@lahabra.chevron.com (Dennis Chandler)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: NNTP Servers
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:50:39 GMT
Organization: Chevron Info Tech

In article <Alex.6.0@camp.wpic.pitt.edu> Alex@camp.wpic.pitt.edu (Alexander J. Ferguson III) writes:
>Path: lhdsy1!uunet!uunet!gatech!ukma!widener!dsinc!pitt.edu!camp.wpic.pitt.edu!Alex
>From: Alex@camp.wpic.pitt.edu (Alexander J. Ferguson III)
>Newsgroups: news.software.readers
>Subject: NNTP Servers
>Message-ID: <Alex.6.0@camp.wpic.pitt.edu>
>Date: 15 Jul 92 17:22:38 GMT
>Sender: news+@pitt.edu
>Organization: DAC, Child Psych, UPMC
>Lines: 17


>Hi,
>        I was wondering if anybody out there has or knows of where I can 
>find a list of NNTP servers, and possibly thir IP addresses (though not 
>absolutely necessary)?

>                                        Thank-you,
>                                                Alex
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Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: tim@ssd.intel.com (Tim Gates)
Subject: nn for Sun OS 4.1.2 
Summary: subject says        
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:58:04 GMT

Does anyone out there have the nn software ported to a Sun machine
running version 4.1.2 or knows of a ftp site that might have it 
archived?

thanks in advance,

tim@ssd.intel.com
	 


Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: lea@anl433.uucp (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: Does tin let you cancel other people's articles?
Reply-To: iain%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
Organization: ANL A433, Siemens AG., Germany.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 Beta PL5
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:17:13 GMT

eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
: One of my articles was canceled by someone else, using the message
: quoted below.  (I wrote to this person but received no response yet.)
: Is it possible that a `tin' user accidentally generated this message?
: That is, does `tin' check that a canceler's name matches the original
: article's From: line?  If not, `tin' should check, because C News doesn't.
: 
: 	Control: cancel <biL+!aNt@twinsun.com>
: 	Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
: 	Path: twinsun!ucla-cs!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!uni-heidelberg!uni-mannheim!masc
: 	From: masc@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de ()
: 	Subject: cancel <biL+!aNt@twinsun.com>
: 	Message-ID: <r7bm2kp@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de>
: 	Date: Sun, 19 Jul 92 20:52:35 GMT
: 	Organization: RUM
: 	Lines: 1
: 
: 	Article cancelled from within tin

In versions of tin prior to v1.1 PL3 it was possible to cancel other articles.
I thought Cnews would handle the cancel verification. It was pointed out to me
through Email that this was incorrect. I then fixed the cancel command in PL3.

Iain

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From: chc@orion.ksc.nasa.gov (Charles Curley)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: NNTP on ISC 3.0
Date: 29 Jul 92 01:01:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Operations, Kennedy Space Center, Florida


Quick one:  Does anyone have NNTP Server code compiled and operating
	correctly on ISC 3.0?

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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.sysv386
From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
Subject: NNTP with Interactive Unix 3.0 (ISC)?
Followup-To: news.software.nntp
Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:45:36 GMT

I've set the followup for news.software.nntp -

I've gotten the 1.5.11 version of NNTP from the UUNET archives.
I've also obtained the NNTP ISC Shar files as well.  I've followed
the directions and obtained the 'ndir.shar' file from bmc.tmc.edu,
and installed the include and lib files in the appropriate place.
I then attempt to compile and receive warnings that <sys/bsdtypes.h>
redefines a couple things, and then I start to get errors about
structures being redefined.

First question:  Does anyone have ISC Binaries for Client libs and
Server programs for NNTP?

Second:  Does anyone know the correct source code patches to get
it working?  

Before mailing binaries or patches please contact me - my last query
got 10 copies of a 500K archive.  Thank you very much. :)

-Andy

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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: chrisc@lmt.mn.org (Chris Cox  W0/G4JEC)
Subject: Re: Need a copy of the patch program
Reply-To: chrisc@lmt.mn.org (Chris Cox  W0/G4JEC)
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN USA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 18:14:07 GMT

Ditto - Where does one find 'patch'?

Chris

Chris Cox                                     chrisc@ramrod.lmt.mn.org
Network Administrator                 Tel: (612) 944-6069
From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Odd nntpxmit errors
Date: 21 Jul 92 09:11:15 GMT
Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn

In article <1992Jul20.221521.18004@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jhmiller@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Miller) writes:
>As we continue to get the bugs out of our news system, we have found an
>error nntpxmit is generating that we don't know what to do with:
>
>nntpxmit: control/150: message-id syntax error: 64423
>nntpxmit: alt/drugs/12417: message-id syntax error: 6451
>(etc, etc.. we see alot of these)
>
>We are running CNews, NNTP 1-.5.11, and nn .
>Our sys file, has three feeds, all with the fL3 option.

It's nice to see people provide enough information.

Change the f flag to an n flag in the sys file.
The f means to write the pathname and size in the togo file.
Using n instead puts the message-id instead of file size.
This is what nntpxmit uses so it can offer an article before actually
opening it, which is a big timesaver if the article is rejected as duplicate.

Cheers,
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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: jwk@riscsm.scripps.edu (John W. Kupec)
Subject: nntp & IRIX 4.0.5
Organization: Agouron Pharmaceutical, Inc, San Diego, California, USA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:05:43 GMT

I'm attempting to build Cnews/nntp.1.5.11 on an Indigo Elan
running IRIX 4.0.5.  I'm unclear on whether I need to define
NDIR in common/common.h.  I've obtained and built the ndir
distribution on my Iris but defining USG (which then defines
NDIR) results in immediate compilation failures when making
"server".

I can build and run nntp (at least I can telnet to the nntp port
and talk to the program) if I "undef NDIR".

Is the NDIR stuff REQUIRED for IRIX 4.0.X?  If you have gotten
nntp to build/run under this OS please let me know how you
did it and whether or not the ndir code is required.

TIA,

jwk


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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: minor speed up for C News sites
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:53:12 GMT
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die

If you are running a C News later than March 1991, this small patch to
server/batch.c of NNTP 1.5.11 will speed up newsrun processing by tagging
input batches as cleartext:


*** server/batch.c.old	Tue Jul 21 21:43:32 1992
--- server/batch.c	Tue Jul 21 21:43:33 1992
***************
*** 427,433 ****
  	}
  
  	/* rename btch.name to a number so newsrun will see it */
! 	sprintf(number, "%ld", (long)time(&now));
  #else
  	sprintf(number, "%d.%d", getpid(), uniq++);
  #endif /* NONEWSRUN */
--- 427,433 ----
  	}
  
  	/* rename btch.name to a number so newsrun will see it */
! 	sprintf(number, "%ld.t", (long)time(&now));
  #else
  	sprintf(number, "%d.%d", getpid(), uniq++);
  #endif /* NONEWSRUN */
***************
*** 436,442 ****
  			break;
  		sleep(2);
  #ifndef NONEWSRUN
! 		sprintf(number, "%ld", (long)time(&now));
  #else
  		sprintf(number, "%d.%d", getpid(), uniq++);
  #endif /* NONEWSRUN */
--- 436,443 ----
  			break;
  		sleep(2);
  #ifndef NONEWSRUN
! 		/* .t indicates a known-text file to newsrun */
! 		sprintf(number, "%ld.t", (long)time(&now));
  #else
  		sprintf(number, "%d.%d", getpid(), uniq++);
  #endif /* NONEWSRUN */

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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: tabbert@noc.rz.uni-hohenheim.de (Andreas Tabbert)
Subject: Help: NNTP on RS/6000
Keywords: RS/6000, Install
Organization: University of Hohenheim
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:11:49 GMT

Hey there,

we have a big Problem installing NNTP on a RS/6000 (AIX 3.15).
Did someone install it on that machine?
Do we need special hacks or something like that? 
Do we need the 'ndir.h' and where can we get it?

Thanks a lot,
Andreas Tabbert

E-Mail: tabbert@noc.rz.uni-hohenheim.de
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.readers
From: harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart)
Subject: nntp_access file not restricting access
Keywords: nntp
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:25:03 GMT

While running nntp version 1.5.11 on a Sun IPC, SunOS 4.1.1, users 
using NetNews for the MacIntosh from an outside network appear to 
be able to see restricted groups (but not access them). This
is not true of users running any of the UNIX Newsreaders or NetNews
on the local network, and we haven't had the opportunity to test
access by UNIX systems on the remote network. Any ideas why 
nntp_access allows this. I assumed setting the default entry to
the following would cover anyone not specified afterward:

default		read	post	!alt.sex

No, we're not trying to censor anything--just trying to keep things
uncensored by avoiding questions from certain MAC-based supervisors
who may have different ideas on what's appropriate on a network. 


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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: walker@uunet!fdls!agdept (Walker)
Subject: NNTP On Motorola SYS V/68
A-Internet: dougw@agdept.odag.or.gov
C-Phone: (503) 378-5869
Organization: Oregon Department of Agriculture
B-Uucp: uunet!agdept!dougw
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:29:12 GMT

Does anyone have the NNTP server software compiled and operating successfully
under Motorola's UNIX SYS V/68 operating system?  Any and all help
appeciated.

Thanks.

   . . .  Doug Walker

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Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem, Oregon           (503) 378-5869
From: gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Help, TIN NNTP Server Patch hoses the server!!
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:05:49 GMT
Organization: Universal Exports

When I do a make server after applying the TIN NNTP patches I get the following
error:

cc -O  -target sun3 -c  timer.c
"timer.c", line 129: timeoutp undefined
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `timer.o'
Current working directory /usr/local/src/nntp/server
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `make_server'

When I go and look at the file the error occurs on a line added by the patch
file. 

Any suggestions? I am compiling on a Sun 3/260 running SunOS4.1.1 Has anyone
compiled the patched NNTP server for this machine? Any other machine?
Any help would greatly be appreciated, thanx!

---
Noah White


Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: NNTP 1.5.11 : cannot post..
Originator: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:19:56 GMT

HI,
	I want to install nntp1.5.11 server on my Solbourne.
	When I invoke nntpd from the command line I get a message

01 widget NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.11 (10 February 1991) ready at 
Mon Jul 27 11:20:13 1992 (no posting).


	I have checked my nntp_access file and it looks fine to me.
	I was asked to see the nntplog file but I it is an empty file.
	Some useful parameters in my config file...


	#define CNEWS
	#undef  FAKESYSLOG      "/usr/lib/news/nntplog"
	#undef  FAKEAPPEND
	#define SYSLOG  LOG_NEWS

        #define DOMAIN  "evb.com"
	#define HIDDENNET    /* I don't want my hostname to appear
				in my from address, i just want the
				domain name. so is it right, what
				I am doing ? */

        #define SERVER_FILE     "/usr/local/lib/rn/server"
	 * Some commonly used programs and files.
	  */

	  #define ACTIVE_FILE     "/usr/lib/news/active"
	  #define DISTRIBUTIONS_FILE      "/usr/lib/news/distributions"
	  #define NEWSGROUPS_FILE "/usr/lib/news/newsgroups"
	  #define HISTORY_FILE    "/usr/lib/news/history"
	  #define SPOOLDIR        "/usr/spool/news"
	  #define INEWS           "/usr/lib/news/inews"
	  #define RNEWS           "/usr/lib/newsbin/input/rnews"  


Please respond by email only as I don't have access to this 
group.

thanks

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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: udec@dcc.uchile.cl (Claudio Robles (U.Concepcion))
Subject: Re: NNTP On Motorola SYS V/68
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:55:35 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile - Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion

    Hi all.
    I'm installing a netnews system ver our IMB AIX 3.0 machine.  Unfortunately
    I'm having terrible troubles in this work, because of the incompabilities
     between AIX and NNTP version 1.5.8 that I have.  I would like to know,

    there is, somewhere in the net a NNTP version specially for AIX ?      
	The machine is an RS/6000....I hope you can help me.
	Many thanks in advance,

	Leopoldo M.Gonzalez
	Software Engineering Dept.
	D.P.I.
	Universidad de Concepcion
	Chile
	E-mail leopoldo@cisne.soft.udec.cl (Internet)

Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: gunnar@ericsson.se (Gunnar Forsgren)
Subject: Re: Which inews to use?
Reply-To: gunnar@ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:47:27 GMT

In article 8436@nebulus.ca, dennis@nebulus.ca (Dennis S. Breckenridge) writes:
>jhmiller@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Miller) writes:
>
>>selected. Currently "/usr/lib/news/inews" is the shell script that came with
>>C-News. Should this be the "mini-inews" version that comes with nntp instead?
>
>I use the cnews version here. The inews that comes with nntp pages itself
>out to my swap device until there is no more swap device. Pressing the BIG
>RED BUTTON (reset) is the only way to get my system back. FYI I am running
>AT&T SYSV 3.2.2c with Bell Technologies (aka Lachman) TCP/IP/NFS. 
>
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Dennis S. Breckenridge VE7TCP@VE7TCP [44.135.160.59]  dennis@nebulus.ca
>Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed - Oracle
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The nntp inews is NNTP oriented and attempts to connect to a NNTP server
for posting the article. nntpd wants to run the cnews inews script to transfer
the incoming news article to the news spool on the local machine.
If nntpd would instead use the nntp inews program that inews would want to
post the article via nntp which would spawn another nntpd which would spawn
another inews which would spawn another nntpd, and so on until all memory is used.
______________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: fillmore@emr1.emr.ca (Bob Fillmore 992-2832)
Subject: nntpxmit - stuck sending same articles
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:01:21 GMT

We have a problem once in a while where nntpxmit at another site tries
to send us some articles and they are all rejected.  This happens over
and over with exactly the same number of articles rejected each time.
The number of articles is a small fraction of the number in the other
site's outgoing batch for us.  This seems to happen when we have a site
power failure or other cases where we don't respond to the sender regularly.

We have been solving this by asking the other site to delete their outgoing
batch for us, but that means we lose a lot of articles.  Does anyone know
what is causing this, and how to fix it without losing a lot of articles?

Please reply via email (nntp is not reliable!) - I will post a short summary
if I get a good answer.   Thanks!

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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: ds11129@medtronic.COM (Dean R. Schrimpf)
Subject: Re: Help, TIN NNTP Server Patch hoses the server!!
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:14:45 GMT

gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes:
: When I do a make server after applying the TIN NNTP patches I get the following
: error:
: 
: cc -O  -target sun3 -c  timer.c
: "timer.c", line 129: timeoutp undefined
: *** Error code 1
: make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `timer.o'
: Current working directory /usr/local/src/nntp/server
: *** Error code 1
: make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `make_server'
: 
This is a known bug, the easiest solution is to undefine TIMEOUT and
XFER_TIMEOUT.

I am currently working on a patch for Iian, but of course work comes first.

Dean

: When I go and look at the file the error occurs on a line added by the patch
: file. 
: 
: Any suggestions? I am compiling on a Sun 3/260 running SunOS4.1.1 Has anyone
: compiled the patched NNTP server for this machine? Any other machine?
: Any help would greatly be appreciated, thanx!
: 
: ---
: Noah White

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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Which inews to use?
Keywords: inews
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:53:02 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sub.org

In news.software.nntp, article <1992Jul23.002548.8436@nebulus.ca>,
  dennis@nebulus.ca (Dennis S. Breckenridge) writes:
< jhmiller@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Miller) writes:
< 
< >selected. Currently "/usr/lib/news/inews" is the shell script that came with
< >C-News. Should this be the "mini-inews" version that comes with nntp instead?
< 
< I use the cnews version here. The inews that comes with nntp pages itself
< out to my swap device until there is no more swap device. Pressing the BIG
< RED BUTTON (reset) is the only way to get my system back.

There's a reason for this.

nntpd forks off inews to handle the posting, which connects to your machine
(launching another nntpd) and tries to post, which forks off inews ...
you get the idea.

If you want local postings to go through NNTP, place the C News' inews in 
NEWSBIN, hard-code this into nntpd, and install the mini-inews in
/usr/local/bin or somesuch.

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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: dennis@nebulus.ca (Dennis S. Breckenridge)
Subject: Re: Which inews to use?
Organization: Alchemy Mindworks, Edmonton, Alberta
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:25:48 GMT
Keywords: inews

jhmiller@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Miller) writes:

>selected. Currently "/usr/lib/news/inews" is the shell script that came with
>C-News. Should this be the "mini-inews" version that comes with nntp instead?

I use the cnews version here. The inews that comes with nntp pages itself
out to my swap device until there is no more swap device. Pressing the BIG
RED BUTTON (reset) is the only way to get my system back. FYI I am running
AT&T SYSV 3.2.2c with Bell Technologies (aka Lachman) TCP/IP/NFS. 

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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed - Oracle
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