Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!killer!ernest!lae
From: lae@ernest.ti.com (Alan Edmonds)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <922@ernest.ti.com>
Date: 30 May 89 20:35:43 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.uucp> <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <137@swituc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lae@ernest.UUCP (0000-Admin(0000))
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Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Dallas TX
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In article <137@swituc.UUCP> pmb@swituc.UUCP (Pat Berry) writes:
>In article <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>, news@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>> ~Bad Newsgroups Received
>> ~a.politic 18               This is the stuff I'm talking about.
>> ~a.single 1
>> ~alk.politics.gun 5
>> ~lt.bb 1
>> ~lt.conspirac 1
>We are getting the same thing to the tune of 10 to 15 per day.  It appears
>to be a handshaking problem, clipping off the first few chars of the group
>names.

Actually, there is a bug in the script I got as part of the news sources.
Enclosed is a context-diff of the fix.  I thought everyone had already 
fixed this, so I kept the fix to myself.  I also added a Subject: line
header.

Enjoy.
====================== cut here =================
*** report_awk
--- /usr/lib/news/report_awk
**************
*** 60,66
  #  Fix up the counting of gatewayed material, add counting of "linecount"
  #  problems. Additional cleanup to make things faster.
  #
! BEGIN{
  #
  #	this is the prefix that your site uses in hostnames to identify your
  #	hosts (e.g. ucbarpa, ucbvax, su-score, mit-mc, mit-ai)
--- 37,45 -----
  #  Fix up the counting of gatewayed material, add counting of "linecount"
  #  problems. Additional cleanup to make things faster.
  #
! #  Alan Edmonds (alan@ernest.ti.com)
! #  Add subject line to output message
! #  fix length problem with bad newsgroups section
  #
  BEGIN{
  #
**************
*** 62,67
  #
  BEGIN{
  #
  #	this is the prefix that your site uses in hostnames to identify your
  #	hosts (e.g. ucbarpa, ucbvax, su-score, mit-mc, mit-ai)
  #	You will probably want to change (or add to) the following line
--- 41,52 -----
  #  Add subject line to output message
  #  fix length problem with bad newsgroups section
  #
+ BEGIN{
+ #
+ #	print subject line for mail
+ #
+ 	printf("Subject: USENET Activity Log\n\n");
+ #
  #	this is the prefix that your site uses in hostnames to identify your
  #	hosts (e.g. ucbarpa, ucbvax, su-score, mit-mc, mit-ai)
  #	You will probably want to change (or add to) the following line
**************
*** 219,226
  $6 == "valid"		{ junked[sys]++; next }
  $6 == "too"		{ junked[sys]++; old++; next }
  $5 == "Unknown"		{
! 	x = length($7) - 2;
! 	ng = substr($7, 2, x);
  	badng[ng]++;
  	badgrp++;
  	next;
--- 204,213 -----
  $6 == "valid"		{ junked[sys]++; next }
  $6 == "too"		{ junked[sys]++; old++; next }
  $5 == "Unknown"		{
! #	x = length($7) - 2;
! 	x = length($7);
! #	ng = substr($7, 2, x);
! 	ng = substr($7, 1, x);
  	badng[ng]++;
  	badgrp++;
  	next;
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