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 -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html
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