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From: sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Need (rumoured) patches to nntpd to refuse articles if there's no room
Keywords: Help, please
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Date: 20 Nov 88 01:56:37 GMT
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In article <636@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> jepeway@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Chris Jepeway) writes:
>We're getting 0 length articles when our news partition (which cannot
>be increased in size) fills.  I've heard that there are patches to the
>nntp software to refuse articles for which there's no disk space.
>Can anyone point me to them?  Or disabuse me of the myth that such
>software exists?
>
>Thanks Ever,
>Chris Jepeway
>UTK CS Dept

There are three official patches to nntp 1.5 that are available. All are
available via anonymous ftp from bcm.tmc.edu [128.249.2.1] or from
the archive-server.

For info on the archive-server, send mail to "archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu"
with a Subject: line of "help".

Here are what the three patches do:

Patch #1

Problems:
         1. strcascmp.c will not compile on System V if there is no
            typedef for an unsigned char. This is a common problem with
            many versions of System V.
         2. main.c will not compile under EXCELAN because a structure is
            used before it is defined.
         3. SIGCLD in System V is NOT the same as SIGCHLD under BSD.
         4. actbuf must be explicitly defined under System V or free(actbuf)
            will core dump.
         5. System V compilers do not tolerate including the same include
            file more than once.

Patch #2

Description:
	1. Arguements are reversed in one line in ahbs.c
	2. Patch #1 contained a typo in patch to strcasecmp.c
	3. nntp_awk script fails on entries created by nntpxmit under
	System V.

Patch #3

Description:
        1. Under the history mechanism that does not use DBM, files are not
           closed following use. This causes the process to run of file
           descriptors & nntpd to abort. The nntp log file will show this with
           "No more files" messages.
        2. There was no graceful way for any version of nntp to stop a transfer
           when there was no space left in the news SPOOLDIR. This can cause
           many aborted connections and sometimes lost news

Stan           internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu         Baylor College of Medicine
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Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine.