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From: ramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey)
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Subject: Re: "ihave" problem with nntp on SPARC under SunOS 4.1 - NNTP 1.5.10
Summary: problems solved
Keywords: nntp
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Date: 15 Dec 90 21:27:20 GMT
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Thanks to those of you who offered suggestions.

There were two major problems.  First, I missed the fact that there was a 
"both" option to nntp_access.  In the access file itself it is very clear 
that "read implies xfer" :-).

Second, if you define DBZ and CNEWS but don't define DBM in conf.h you end 
up with nntp trying to use the USGHIST option of creating a histfile.  The
problem stems from some code in the server/misc.c gethistent routine that
checks to see if NDBM or DBM is defined and, if not, defines USGHIST. So,
I defined DBM and things seem to work. 


-ED

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-Ed Ramsey    User Services Manager, NPIRS, Purdue University
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