Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!sherlock!paul From: paul@sherlock.cs.concordia.ca (GILL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: rn on 3500 Message-ID: <1928@clyde.concordia.ca> Date: 14 Mar 90 19:39:08 GMT Sender: usenet@clyde.concordia.ca Reply-To: paul@sherlock.CS.Concordia.CA (GILL) Organization: Concordia University, Montreal Quebec Lines: 40 In article <1902@clyde.concordia.ca> I wrote: ->> Hi all, ->> ->> On some of our Apollos 3500 [10.1, 10.2] rn starts normally by ->> listing unread newsgroups but when I tried to read an article ->> it clears the screen and gives the following message. ->> ->> Caught a SIGSEGV-- .newsrc restored ->> IOT trap ->> ->> Now this happens only on the server nodes [ Authorized Area ] ->> Anybody has experienced this problem??? ->> ->> Any suggestions welcome, I will summarize for the net. ->> Thanks Here is the answer: From: Jinfu Chen It fixes the problem for 10.1 and 10.2 ->The problem you have is fixed in rn patch 41. You can request rn patches ->41-44 from sob@lib.tmc.edu where Stan Barber is the 'official' rn patche ->keeper now. -> ->Basically the problem is in art.c line 107 (or around that): -> -> if (filestat.st_mode & S_IFMT != S_IFREG) -> ->change this to: -> -> if ((filestat.st_mode & S_IFMT) != S_IFREG) -> ->will fix the problem you have. -> Well thank you Jinfu. Your help is appreciated. --- Paul Gill Analyst, Concordia University, Computer Science, 1455 De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 email: paul@concour.cs.concordia.ca Phone:(514)-848-3035