Re: Problems with newsx_0.11-1
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
[my complaint about newsx]
> 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 use inn. The Makefile will come in a separate (private) message.
> 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).
You could also place LOCKFILE in the NEWSCTL directory as in newsx_0.1-1.
AFAIK the NEWSCTL directory is always writeable for user news only, so it
should be safe.
> Many thanks for the info - hopefully everything will be working again in a
> few days.
Yes, let's hope so.
BTW, I just noticed another error in my Makefile. I don't know how it
happened, but the 'prefix' variable is set to '/usr/local'. Could you look
into this? I haven't tried a 'make install', I just copied the newsx
binary into /usr/local/bin/ and it worked.
Remco
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