Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!ncifcrf!lhc!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med From: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: NNTP with C News Message-ID: <1990Aug9.123954.14865@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Date: 9 Aug 90 12:39:54 GMT References: <1990Aug8.193355.26981@edison.cho.ge.com> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Lines: 27 In article <1990Aug8.193355.26981@edison.cho.ge.com> rja writes: >I've just recently installed C News here and things are generally working >very well. I've spent the past two days trying to get NNTP working between >this machine (Ultrix 3.1 VAX, sort of like 4.2 BSD) and a VMS machine running >ANU News 5.9c, Wollongong TCP/IP, and VMS 5. > >{description of how access to history file fails deleted} >I've glanced at the code and my suspcions lie in the dbm code which looks in >the history file for the article id because Ultrix 3 is different (read broken) >in several other ways from normal 4.2 BSD. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the >defines correct in common/conf.h but am certainly willing to entertain any >ideas. > I also had a problem when I added nntp on top a an already running Cnews system. I had built the Cnews system using the supplied dbz routines (don't have any form of dbm on my Sys V R3). I tried using gdbm with nntp, but it couldn't read the dbz Cnews history file. I had to use the dbz routines from Cnews in nntp to get it to read the Cnews history file. In general, I'd say if you have trouble accessing the history file with different programs, make sure they use *identical* dbm code. > -- Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.2 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb.bitnet WIN/TCP for 3B2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com