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From: gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: News 5.8A patches/updates??  Help!
Message-ID: <869.2548117f@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 27 Oct 89 08:27:43 GMT
References: <9589@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <9589@oregon.uoregon.edu>, MRT@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle R. Thibault) writes:
>   I've recently installed News v5.8A here and I seem to be having some
> problems.  First of all, the nntp server is *very* slow and there seem
> to be some posting problems.  Have I missed some patches somewhere along
> the line?  I have a whole series of messages from Geoff that claim to be
> patches (in SLP format) for 5.8A, but either I don't know what I'm doing
> (never used EDIT/SUM before) ;-), or I'm attempting to apply these to
> the wrong versions of the files -- if, indeed, these patches should be
> applied at all.  Can anyone who has a working version of 5.8A (or B, if
> one ever came out), explain to me if there were patches that I'm missing
> or what I'm doing wrong?
> 
>   BTW, I ftp'd 5.8 from kuhub along with the update procedure and ran
> all that, so what I need to know is if there are patches that were
> supposed to be applied after that, and if so, which ones and are they
> the ones I have or do I have to find them somewhere else??
> 
>   Also, I don't know if this is a fixed problem or not, but we're
> getting a lot of NNTP_*_1.tmp files created in our news_manager
> directory.  Anybody have an idea about these and why they aren't going
> away?  Is this just another part of our posting problems?

The answer to most of this posting is to move to 5.9A. I have cleaned up the
NNTP work, and fixed a large set of 5.8 bugs. 5.9 sources are availabel from
kuhub and the 5.9A patches are also there as I understand.

Geoff Huston