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From: evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: problems with rn and rrn
Message-ID: <302@ndcheg.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 21:20:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: ndcheg.302
Posted: Sat Oct 10 21:20:34 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 19:31:23 EDT
References: <1316@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame
Lines: 38
Summary: do not proceed blithely

In article <1316@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>, rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:
> Where does one get a good nntp distribution from?  I've copied the rn
> sources from uunet.uu.net, copied all of the patches from there, and
> applied all of the patches.  I then copied the nntp.tar.Z file from
> uunet.uu.net, uncompressed and extracted it, copied everything from
> the rn directory into the nntp/rrn directory and ran the
> MAKE_RRN_CANGES shell script (it runs patch) but not all of the
> patches are correct; i.e. patch generates the following .rej files:
> 
> Configure.rej
> Makefile.SH.rrn.rej
> bits.c.rej
> init.c.rej
> ngdata.c.rej
> rcstuff.c.rej
> 
> Should I just ignore this and blithely proceed?


I copied the same files from uunet.uu.net and was unable to build rrn.
It seems that the patch files do not exactly coincide with the source
available on uunet (although I have the highest regard for L. Wall's
Patch program).

I needed to do some detective work to apply some of the patches.  It wasn't
too difficult as I used the textedit tool on the Sun.  Be very sure that 
the Makefile is patched accordingly.

In the end, I was able to build rrn after manually deleting references
to /usr/include/sys/jioctl.h which is not in my version of Unix.
Users can use rrn to read news over the ethernet, but the posting
method still does not work.  After the user tells rrn to send the article,
I get a message that the server rejected the posting.  I think that my
nntp_access file is correct.  Anyone have any ideas??

	Evan Bauman
	Univ. of Notre Dame
	..!iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!evan