Debian Bug report logs - #4181
Searching for wrong active file

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: joey@wazergate.north.de (Martin Schulze)

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Searching for wrong active file

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 96 00:35 MET DST

Package: nn
Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01

Debian's INN has its active file located in /var/lib/news/active.
The nn newsreader mentioned above unfortunately tries to read it 
from /usr/lib/news/active.

Here's an strace excerpt:

wazergate!joey:~> strace nn
[...]
uname({sys="Linux", node="wazergate", ...}) = 0
open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY)            = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=156, ...}) = 0
read(3, "127.0.0.1\tlocalhost\n192.109.22"..., 4096) = 156
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(3)                                = 0
brk(0x8049000)                          = 0x8049000
brk(0x804a000)                          = 0x804a000
brk(0x804d000)                          = 0x804d000
open("/usr/lib/news/active", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file or directory)
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(4, 197), ...}) = 0
brk(0x804e000)                          = 0x804e000
ioctl(1, 0x5401, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
write(1, "could not fetch active file\n", 28could not fetch active file


Regards,

	Martin

Message #10 received at 4181@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: joey@wazergate.north.de (Martin Schulze)

To: 4181@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#4181: Searching for wrong active file)

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:53:04 +0200 (MET DST)

Luckily I can provide you with a patch:

diff -Nur orig/nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c
--- orig/nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c	Thu Nov 25 10:39:33 1993
+++ nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c	Sat Aug 17 00:46:41 1996
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@
     actfp = nntp_fopen_list("LIST");
   } else
 #endif
-    actfp = fopen(relative(news_lib_directory, "active"), "r");
+    actfp = fopen("/var/lib/news/active", "r");
 
   if (actfp == NULL) {
     nn_exitmsg(1, "could not fetch active file\n");

Regards,

	Joey

Message #15 received at 4181@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Coleman <coleman@chez-gnu.cstp.umkc.edu>

To: joey@wazergate.north.de, 4181@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#4181: Searching for wrong active file

Date: Sun, 18 Aug 96 17:06 CDT

   Date: Sat, 17 Aug 96 00:35 MET DST
   From: joey@wazergate.north.de (Martin Schulze)

   Debian's INN has its active file located in /var/lib/news/active.
   The nn newsreader mentioned above unfortunately tries to read it 
   from /usr/lib/news/active.

Martin,

[Cool!  My first bug report!  :-]

When I compiled this version of nn, I was assuming that it would be used as an
NNTP-only newsreader, the assumption being that virtually everyone reads news
this way.

It looks like what you're doing here is trying to read news out of a local
spool area.  I suppose if this can be easily supported, it should be, but I'm
not at all sure it will work.  In particular, 'nn' would have to be able to
read NOV (overview) data out of this spool area, too.

Before I start digging further, do you know whether both news and the overview
data are available on your machine?

Thanks,
--Mike

Message #20 received at 4181-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 4181-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:22:00 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

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