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From: bart@videovax.tv.Tek.com (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: xref lines not working in rn
Message-ID: <5484@videovax.tv.Tek.com>
Date: 19 Jul 89 06:57:16 GMT
References: <244@wupulm.wustl.EDU> <2502@sigma.UUCP>
Reply-To: bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey)
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <2502@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
> In article <244@wupulm.wustl.EDU> billc@wupulm.wustl.EDU (Bill Canning) writes:
> >I have rn 4.3 (patch level 14) and news 2.11 (patch level 34(?))
> >running on an HP 9000/360 HP-UX 6.2.  Unfortunately, the Xrefs
> >line is not keeping me from seeing the same message a number of 
> >times.
> >I configured news to DOXREFS, and used the Configure file that came
> >with rn.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> We, too, have this problem with rn 4.3 (patchlevel 39 or 40) and 
> news 2.11.14 (.17?) on a vax-750 running 4.2bsd.
>   
> It appeared about the same time that we installed 2.11; we'd not had
> the problem with 2.10.2. (Rn has not changed since long before we
> installed news 2.11.)

Try defining NORELAY in rn/config.h .  The fact that one poster's problem
began after 2.11 installation is a dead giveaway.

The code in bits.c which implements this option (i.e. removes rn's reliance
on the Relay-Version header, which disappeared as of 2.10.3) also copes with
the domain portion of the hostname in the xref line.  Without this option,
an xref line such as
	Xref: videovax or.forsale:3023 tek.forsale:1881
will likely be discarded by rn, since the hostname of the system to which
the article numbers refer either will not be identified or will be
identified as "videovax.tv.tek.com", and so rn will think the xref line
was generated on some other machine.

The above explanation is admittedly incoherent, but so is the twisty code in
bits.c, starting at around line 398.  As always, "Use the source, Fluke" :-),
and good luck!

					Bart Massey
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