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Article #197Re: B news 2.11 patch 18 considered harmful
From: Mark Williams
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 10:28
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 10:28
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gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) writes: >Well, I naively patched my sources, which were at patchlevel 17, and got >a very corrupted situation in my /usr/spool/news/* directories. Here's >the sort of thing I found: [horrendous situation caused by a corrupt active file] I had this problem, too. I got around it by blowing away my active file entirely, running expire -r, and then putting a current checkgroups through the thing. The make update script failed because a regular expression was too long for ULTRIX 3.1 sed. I also had to back out one of the patches to ifuncs.c Apart from that, everything ran smoothly. :-) Mark Williams
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!ccadfa!usage!basser!metro!bunyip!miw From: miw@bunyip.cc.uq.oz (Mark Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.software.b Subject: Re: B news 2.11 patch 18 considered harmful Message-ID: <2158@bunyip.cc.uq.oz> Date: 5 Oct 89 10:28:18 GMT References: <392@gnosys.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.sources.bugs Organization: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Lines: 16