Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Sys File Strangeness Message-ID: <1990Sep28.031824.14060@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Sep27.223150.7773@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 03:18:24 GMT I wrote: >> The log file shows lines like: >> >>Sep 26 20:43:13.161 uunet + <2299@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> alt/folklore/computers/5445 >>decwrl.dec.com someone > >Something very odd is going on here; the article pathname should not be >appearing in the log file! ... Question: are you sure you've got C News as we distribute it? There is rumored to be at least one botched mutant that puts the pathname in there. We cannot be responsible for things we did not write. (And if it's not plainly marked as mutated, whoever did it is in violation of our copyright and has no business redistributing our software.) -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry