Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports/4626: inn port, active file contains control characters Message-ID: <199709261520.IAA10108@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/4626; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/4626: inn port, active file contains control characters
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:53:10 +0200
On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 12:57:29AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to andreas@FreeBSD.ORG:
> > run actsyncd on a regular basis... So the active file gets rewritten
> > completely.
> > 1 18 * * * /usr/local/news/bin/actsyncd /usr/local/news/lib/actsync.cfg
> >
> > Possibly it's related to MMAP ?! Didn't rebuild inn without MMAP
>
> Do it. We (or INN) still have a problem somewhere that cause zero-ed pages
> to be inserted into active, generally after processing a control message
> like "newgroup".
BTW: this is the set of patches I's like to see in the current inn port,
the /var/news/tmp is needed, if newsspool lives on another partition
than /var/tmp. Otherwise rnews can't unpack/spool news articles
(unlink over filesystems not possible).
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/news/inn/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 Makefile
--- Makefile 1997/09/15 20:11:44 1.24
+++ Makefile 1997/09/26 14:48:09
@@ -56,9 +56,13 @@
if [ -d /var/spool/news ] && [ ! -d /var/news ]; then \
${MKDIR} -m 0775 /var/spool/news/over.view; \
chown news.news /var/spool/news/over.view; \
+ ${MKDIR} -m 0775 /var/spool/news/tmp; \
+ chown news.news /var/spool/news/tmp; \
else \
${MKDIR} -m 0775 /var/news/over.view; \
chown news.news /var/news/over.view; \
+ ${MKDIR} -m 0775 /var/news/tmp; \
+ chown news.news /var/news/tmp; \
fi
${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/news/locks
chown news.news ${PREFIX}/news/locks
Index: files/config.data
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/news/inn/files/config.data,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 config.data
--- config.data 1997/09/15 20:11:45 1.11
+++ config.data 1997/09/26 14:49:23
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
##
## Use read/write to update the active file, or mmap? Pick READ or MMAP.
#### =()<ACT_STYLE @<ACT_STYLE>@>()=
-ACT_STYLE MMAP
+ACT_STYLE READ
## Do you want mail notifications of bad control messages. DO or DONT
## Setting it to do results in a lot of mail with the number of spammers
## out there.
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@
_PATH_SPOOLNEWS !!NEWSSPOOL!!/in.coming
## Where rnews creates temporary files until finished
#### =()<_PATH_SPOOLTEMP @<_PATH_SPOOLTEMP>@>()=
-_PATH_SPOOLTEMP /var/tmp
+_PATH_SPOOLTEMP !!NEWSSPOOL!!/tmp
## Where rnews puts bad input.
#### =()<_PATH_BADNEWS @<_PATH_BADNEWS>@>()=
_PATH_BADNEWS !!NEWSSPOOL!!/in.coming/bad
--
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