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- From: lang@monolith.hal.com (Tom Lang)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: rn under Dell unix.
- Keywords: inews, patch
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.205112.21506@hal.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 20:51:12 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.202523.2030@hal.com> <mmaster.2a882896-e@parnasus.dell.com> <3301@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Sender: news@hal.com
- Organization: HAL Computer Systems
- Lines: 38
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- In article <3301@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- >>lang@monolith.hal.com (Tom Lang) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <3295@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>> I am having trouble with the rn newsreader under Dell release 2.1.
- >>>>Specifically, it posts articles with a return address of
- >>>>eric@tantalus.dell.com, where my real return address is
- >>>>eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil. I grepped every file in /usr/dell... and replaced
- >
- >>
- >>the inews in /usr/dell/nn/inews isn't used unless it's copied to
- >>/usr/dell/cnews/lib, and it's not normally copied there unless a)
- >>you're using nn, (not rn) and b) you're posting news via nntp.
- >
- > Well, I am using rn, not nn, so this means that we are not using
- >/usr/dell/nn/inews, right? How will it help me to replace inews??
- >
- I assumed your setup is that you're using rn but your news server is on
- another machine in your network. The Pnews command (which posts news) is
- found in /usr/dell/rn/bin/Pnews. It is a shell script, and defines that
- configuration stuff comes from /usr/dell/cnews/lib. The inews in that
- directory by default is a shell script. /usr/dell/nn/inews is a binary. The
- reason you'd copy it over the inews shell script is because you're using a
- remote news server, and the binary supports this while the shell script
- does not. (Why? I don't know... I found this by trial and error)
-
- If this is your environment, then the "dell.com" embedded in the
- /usr/dell/nn/inews binary is the problem, and my patch script will fix it.
-
- Caveat on the patch script: It doesn't check that the four bytes that are
- replaced are actually "dell". You might want to verify the offset before
- patching...
-
- - Tom
- --
- Tom Lang (lang@hal.com) phone: 512 794 2855
- HAL Computer Systems - Austin,Tx FAX: 512 794 8737
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