Re: Problems with newsx_0.11-1
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:24:00AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrading newsx this morning, I noticed out it no longer worked
> properly. I found out two things:
>
> - newsx tries to find the newsfeeds file in /var/lib/news , while it has
> always been in /etc/news .
> - newsx tries to create a lock file in /usr/lib/news , where only root has
> write rights (and beside that, no program should create temporary files
> under /usr)
>
> I don't know what caused these problems. I have unpacked the newsx source
> files and compiled the program:
>
> # dpkg-source -x newsx_0.11-1.dsc
> # cd newsx-0.11
> # make
> # cd src
> # strip newsx
> (skipped all output, which looked OK)
>
> The resulting newsx binary runs fine and with no errors, which puzzles me.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
My fault, I've changed the newsx build process as the old one was very badly
broken (newsx auto-configured itself to your setup which was unacceptable).
Another bug is that newsq is 0644 rather than 0755 - fixed in 0.11-2.
What is your email - inn or cnews? I used to use inn, but swapped to cnews
(I'm regretting that now, but that's a different matter). If you could
email me the top part of the Makefile generated (the first 100 lines would
be great), I'd be very grateful - it would help me check things were okay.
I thought inn used /var/lib/news/newsfeeds, but it probably moved to
/etc/news/newsfeeds to comply with policy. Unfortunately cnews uses
/etc/news/sys and so this must be specified on the command line - as
indicated in the readme. I might fix this sometime, but there are some other
differences between inn and cnews anyway.
I'll upload -3 with NEWSFEEDS set to /etc/news/newsfeeds and LOCKFILE set to
"none" (although I'd rather know what effects this will have).
Many thanks for the info - hopefully everything will be working again in a
few days.
Adrian
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