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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Coherent Cnews bug fix
Summary: Fixes bad date headers
Keywords: news cnews rn
Message-ID: <9106221729.22@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 91 06:29:00 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Lines: 36

This is a fix for date headers in Coherent Cnews.

The latest Cnews will drop articles that do not have valid RFC date
headers.  Coherent Cnews has date header problems, and this is a fix.

Save the script below as rfcdate, and put it in /bin.

Do:

chmod +x rfcdate
chown bin rfcdate
chgrp bin rfcdate

------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# Produces RFC822/1036 compliant date for Cnews
# Rick Kelly	6/20/91
set `date -u`
defdate="$3 $2 $5 $4"
echo $defdate | sed -e s/'199'/'9'/ -e s2/':'..//
------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------

cd /usr/lib/newsbin/inject

edit anne.jones and look for the line that says:

date="`date -u`"		# Coherent

Change this line to:

date="`rfcdate`"		# Coherent


You are now ready to start posting again.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP