Received: from falcon by gos.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa11571; 30 Jan 89 15:33 GMT To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: news: bugfix for rn Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 15:33:31 +0000 From: cmd@ukc.ac.uk I thought I would send you the contents of my "news:to do" folder. ------- Forwarded Message Received: from mcvax by eagle.Ukc.AC.UK with authorised UUCP id a027423; 7 Oct 86 5:16 BST Received: by mcvax.uucp; Tue, 7 Oct 86 01:05:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from cbosgd.UUCP by seismo.CSS.GOV (5.54/1.14) id AA11244; Mon, 6 Oct 86 18:12:33 EDT Received: by cbosgd.ATT.COM (4.12/UUCP-Project/rel-1.0/06-28-86) id AA09761; Wed, 1 Oct 86 23:49:44 edt Date: Wed, 1 Oct 86 23:49:44 edt From: Mark Horton Message-Id: <8610020349.AA09761@cbosgd.ATT.COM> To: backbone@mcvax.uucp, lwall@sdcrdcf.uucp Subject: rn fix for 2.11 Status: RO We noticed here that after we installed 2.11, rn no longer noticed cross-postings, and showed each copy to us separately. It turns out that the problem is that 2.11 inews no longer generates the Relay-Version header. rn gets the local host name from that header, so it can compare it with the host name on the Xref line to make sure it's generated locally. It goes to great pains to do this instead of just calling gethostname or uname, because it wants to be sure to use the same notion of host name that inews has. In practice, the name really is gethostname, and if it gets the wrong name, the worst that happens is it shows you the dup anyway. Since rn already gets the local host name, there's a one line fix to rn. It may be that there's a better, more general, fix (perhaps getting the name from the beginning of the Path) but this works fine for us. Mark *** bits.c.old Wed Oct 1 13:43:20 1986 - --- bits.c Wed Oct 1 23:06:41 1986 *************** *** 393,399 free(inews_site); rver_buf = fetchlines(artnum,RVER_LINE); if ((t = instr(rver_buf,"; site ")) == Nullch) ! inews_site = savestr(nullstr); else { char new_site[128]; - --- 393,399 ----- free(inews_site); rver_buf = fetchlines(artnum,RVER_LINE); if ((t = instr(rver_buf,"; site ")) == Nullch) ! inews_site = savestr(SITENAME); else { char new_site[128]; ------- End of Forwarded Message   Received: from falcon by gos.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id ab11792; 30 Jan 89 15:37 GMT Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 15:34:30 +0000 From: cmd@ukc.ac.uk To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: news/todo/nn cbreak mode You know what to do with this I am putting the nn src in /nn   Received: from falcon by gos.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa12449; 30 Jan 89 15:51 GMT To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: news/todo TOMORROW Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 15:50:59 +0000 From: cmd@ukc.ac.uk ------- Forwarded Message Received: from kestrel by falcon.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa08573; 12 Jan 89 9:23 GMT To: cmd@ukc.ac.uk, nick@psy.man.ac.uk, aidan@ux.cs.man.ac.uk, ken@matr-a.uucp, NEWSMGR@microvax-a.computer-science.liverpool.ac.uk Subject: Bcc: From: Peter Houlder Phone: +44 227 764000 x7568 Organization: Computing Lab, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 09:23:39 +0000 Message-ID: <9460.600600219@kestrel> Sender: uknet@ukc.ac.uk Chris, Can you organise the change. +++ Aidan and Nick, Could you send me updated maps as soon as change takes place. +++ Regards Peter H. - ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 14:40:46 GMT From: Nick Hidden Subject: News feed To: uknet@ukc.ac.uk Cc: NEWSMGR@microvax-a.computer-science.liverpool.ac.uk, aidan@ux.cs.man.ac.uk, ken@matr-a.uucp It has been agreed that as from 1st February 1989 the Department of Computer Science will take over responsibility for distributing the news within the University, and for the external sites which we now feed ( matra and liv-cs ). Could you therefore arrange to send the news to man.cs.ux instead of man.psy as from 1st Feb. The contact at man.cs.ux is Aidan Loyns (aidan@man.cs.ux) Nick - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message   Received: from eagle by gos.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa12670; 30 Jan 89 15:55 GMT Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 15:53:45 +0000 From: cmd@ukc.ac.uk To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: news stats/reports A useful thing I was looking at is ukc/src/report_awk which decodes the log file and reports on error statistics. Can be a bit overwhelming, but probably okay if hacked just a teensy bit, then it can be invoked automatically weekly.   Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 15:53:45 +0000 From: mg To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: newgroups new group notofication doeasn't work - control.c   Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 15:53:45 +0000 From: mg To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: checkgroups hack new checkgroups so it doesn't mail you if nothing's wrong.   Date: Sat Feb 4 05:24:49 GMT 1989 From: mg To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: nntp hack a TS bottom end onto nntpd.   Received: from falcon by gos.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa19632; 9 Feb 89 0:37 GMT Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 0:37:44 GMT From: Max Rockatansky To: Martin Subject: Mistakes Organisation: Yoyodyne Software Systems, UKC Well seeing as you are working at a 'spring clean', how about two typos? The first is in the authorised file, above my name :-( # Jarod Nash, ;eaves UKC Summer 1989 jn:comp.os.minix,eunet.micro.acorn,rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.movies The other one is in the Pnews program itself: >This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire >civilized world. You message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of ^^^^ >dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. That's all folks! Max the VT100 man.   Received: from falcon by gos.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa27332; 9 Feb 89 11:40 GMT To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 11:40:21 +0000 From: cmd@ukc.ac.uk ------- Forwarded Message Received: from merlin by falcon.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa01025; 9 Feb 89 10:10 GMT Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 10:10:14 GMT From: 'Simon Carvisiglia' To: Chris cc: Tony Subject: News on Merlin Here is a forwarded message from another first year CSE student  Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 11:26:38 GMT From: "A.M.Drury" To: sc@ukc.ac.uk Subject: News Status: R Simon Could you find out if we can now have Eunet back since half the users have now switched over to Mike. cheers Tony  ------- End of Forwarded Message