NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/archives/3262

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From: [e-mail] (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [news.software.nntp] First patch to INN is now available
Followup-To: news.software.nntp,news.software.b
Date: 4 Sep 1992 06:04:06 GMT
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
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Archive-name: auto/news.software.nntp/First-patch-to-INN-is-now-available

The first patch to INN is now available.  It should be at many of the
sites that provide FTP access to the distribution (see list below).  The
patch is about 70K.  It fixes a few compile-time/portability problems,
tightens up a few error and log reports, and corrects one or two minor
bugs.  Most of the patch is documentation fixes or adding some better
wording.

List of changes made in this patch:
    Avoid "eval ... 2>&1" in news.daily; some shells report an
    "io error" <[e-mail]>

    Fix some (fs)?printf format/argument errors.

    Declare ICCreserve, RCismaster, GetLoadAverage; INN has no
    implicit function declarations anywhere.

    New innwatch and new config parameters, _PATH_WATCHPID
    _PATH_INNWSTATUS <[e-mail]>

    Have doc/Makefile install newslog.8 and distrib.pats.5
    <[e-mail]> and some others <rsalz>.
    Clarify newsfeeds.5 <[e-mail]>, <rsalz>.
    Install.ms changes:  typo fixes <[e-mail]>;
    explain DIR_STYLE; say that gcc doesn't have SystemV dbz
    problem; document "stdin" entry in nnrp.access; add
    note about Sun's unbundled compiler.
    Mention MERGE_TO_GROUPS in active.5

    Fix kill(1) to kill(2) in comment in config.dist
    <[e-mail]>.
    Fix "inwatch" typo in config.dist <[e-mail]>
    Make subst.c report errors; remove spurious subst line in
    innd.8, fix sendbatch subst line <[e-mail]>
    Change default to not do setrlimit(NOFILE) in config.dist.
    Fix backup and restore targets in config/Makefile to use tar.

    Fix news.daily to pass -dxxx to expire, not -Dxxx, if the
    "expdir" keyword was given <[e-mail]>.
    Don't pass null to sprintf if expire not given -r flag.

    nnrpd said "bad command" not "syntax error" if given wrong
    number of arguments <[e-mail]>.
    Fix == to = so "article <no-such-art>" doesn't make nnrpd
    crash <[e-mail]>.
    Fix VAR_STYLE NONE in nnrpd (don't declare Reply in nnrpd.h).

    Wrap all "#include <sys/un.h>" inside "#if
    defined(DO_HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN)" <[e-mail]>

    Had wrong struct iov element in writev.c <[e-mail]>

    Use chmod, not fchmod in buffchan.c <[e-mail]>

    Use fwrite() != i, not fwrite() < 0 in shrinkfile.

    Have innd syslog the Message-ID that was cancelled, not the
    the article doing the cancel <[e-mail]>.
    The "wants to cancel" message was backwards
    <[e-mail]>
    Fix largewrite in chan.c and some places where %m should
    or should not be used in syslog calls <[e-mail]>
    Use caseEQ in ListHas; host names in Path are not case-
    sensitive <[e-mail]>
    Ignore bad Expires headers in innd (sigh).
    Remove magic numbers from MaxLength in innd (use sizeof) and
    Make MaxLength truncate at 80, not 50.
    Don't let a Tm site point to a site that is a Tm site.
    Add Join() to innd and use it so article-reject messages
    don't span multiple lines.
    Remove extra comment in art.c
    Put filename in "cant dbminit" error message in innd/his.c
    Have ICDreadactive check result of mmap call.
    Or in MAP_FILE into mmap call if it is #define'd (used by BSDI).
    Have ICDreadactive pass end of file back to caller.

    Remove extra spaces between fields in logfile; make
    newsrequeue -l work with DO_NNTPLINK_LOG and without trailing
    spaces <[e-mail]>

    Make the "set" lines in parsecontrol more robust; control
    messages without args (e.g., sendsys) were getting dropped.

    Fix Newsgroups spelling in samples/ihave; inews and
    nnrpd rejected ihave and sendme <[e-mail]>

    Missing curly brace in scanlogs <[e-mail]>
    Missing && in nntpsend (-d was broke) <[e-mail]>

    Add more rnews and nntplink and mthreads (sigh) messages to
    innlog.awk <[e-mail]>.

    Have c7unbatch pass flags to rnews <[e-mail]>

From the release notice:
InterNetNews, or INN, is a news transport system.  The core part of the
package is a single long-running daemon that handles all incoming NNTP
connections.  It files the articles and arranges for them to be forwarded
to downstream sites.  Because it is long-running, it can be directed to
spawn other long-running processes, telling them exactly when an article
should be sent to a feed.

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The sites providing access are:
    cs.utexas.edu        /pub/inn
    ftp.cs.widener.edu    /pub/inn.tar.Z (or wherever).
    ftp.germany.eu.net    /pub/news/inn
    ftp.ira.uka.de        pub/network/news
    ftp.msen.com        /pub/packages/inn
    ftp.uu.net        /pub/news/nntp/inn
    gatekeeper.dec.com    /pub/news/inn
    grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr    /pub/unix/news/inn
    munnari.oz.au        /pub/news/inn
    sparky.Sterling.COM    /news/inn
    src.doc.ic.ac.uk    /computing/usenet/software/transport
    stasys.sta.sub.org    /pub/src/inn
        (Stasys also has anonymous UUCP; contact <[e-mail]>.
    ucsd.edu        /INN
    usc.edu            /pub/inn