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- Welcome to patch number 4 for NNTP 1.5.
-
- If you have not installed the first three patches, you must do so
- before proceeding. You can get those patches (and this one) from
- anoymous ftp on bcm.tmc.edu [128.249.2.1] or by sending a message
- to the archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu with the following text:
- send public nntp.patch.1
- send public nntp.patch.2
- send public nntp.patch.3
-
- If you have all three patches installed, you are ready to install
- this set of patches. These patches are packaged as a shell archive.
- They are as follows:
- CHANGES.diff -- This will patch the CHANGES file in the root
- of the nntp distrbution to reflect changes since the release of 1.5.
- server.diff -- This patch is for the files in the server subdirectory.
- To install, change directory to the server directory and type
- patch < server.diff.
- common.diff -- This patch is for the files in the common sub-
- directory. To install, change directory to the common directory
- and type patch < common.diff
- doc.diff -- This patch is for the files in the doc subdirectory.
- To install, change directory to the doc directory and type
- patch < doc.diff.
- xmit.diff -- This is a patch for nntpxmit.c in the xmit directory.
- To install, change directory to the xmit directory and type
- patch < xmit.diff.
- inews.diff -- This patch is for the files in the inews subdirectory.
- To install, change directory to the inews directory and type
- patch < inews.diff.
- support.diff -- This patch is for the files in the support sub-
- directory. To install, change directory to the support directory
- and type patch < support.diff.
-
- Now, look at common/conf.h and common/README for the new functions
- you may want to use (DOMAINMATCH, HIDDENNET, etc.).
-
- If you don't need HIDDENNET, you only need to rebuild nntpxmit and
- nntpd. If you need HIDDENNET, you will have to rebuild inews and
- reinstall it on all the nntp clients (NOT the server!).
-
- Please read the CHANGES file (following application of the patch) for
- a list of new features.
-
- Some specific comments:
-
- TMNN support: The LIST command has been extended to provide some
- initial support to TMNN (someday to be News 3.0). These extensions
- are:
- LIST ACTIVE --- Lists the news active file. Just like LIST with no
- arguements.
- LIST DISTRIBUTIONS -- List the news distributions file.
- LIST NEWSGROUPS -- List the news group discriptions file.
-
- out-of-space support: BSD, SunOS, Ultrix, and System V are supported.
- If NNTP knows that there is no space when an xfer-only system connects
- it will greet that client with a 503 message. Clients listed in
- nntp_access with read enabled will be greeted normally. If
- the server runs out of space following a transfer, when the
- client enters the next IHAVE, the server will respond with 436
- and close the connection. nntpxmit will requeue when this
- happens. Posting will be rejected similiarly unless you have
- some value greater than zero set for the POST_BUFFER. See
- post.c for the nitty gritty.
-
- Bug reports and enhancements welcome,
- Stan Barber
-
- sob@bcm.tmc.edu
-
- P.S. I expect Phil will take the reins back following this patch.
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