Xref: utzoo news.software.b:3070 news.software.nntp:301 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Important! 14Sep89 C News and NNTP! Message-ID: <1989Sep21.204553.11894@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Sep19.225626.13940@utzoo.uucp> <1989Sep20.044249.2043@rpi.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 89 20:45:53 GMT In article <1989Sep20.044249.2043@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: >How are the effects of this noticeable? We are running NNTP 1.5.5 >with C News patches and current C News (just made the switch starting >Sunday night, due to load crunching on rpi.edu). I have not seen >duplicates appearing in groups, although log is mentioning a lot of >duplicates (which it is presumably tossing). Are these the result of >the recent C News patch? Yes. The problem is that RFC822 compatibility broke NNTP's duplicate checking, so it is pulling lots of duplicates over the network. Relaynews then rejects them, but it's still wasteful. >Speaking of log, what knows about log and where it is located? Since >I also keep logfiles of nntpsend and NNTP syslog activity, I prefer to >have a $NEWSCTL/logs/ where I can put them. What do I have to change >to get C News to log and errlog there? ... In the current versions, at least, egrep 'log"' relay/relaynews.c will show you where these filenames are being determined. Just changing those strings suitably, and recompiling, will make the desired change. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu