Problem with C News slave/master numbering and Xref'ed articles?

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2 total messages Started by Jason Molenda Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:51

#5103

Author: Jason Molenda
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:51

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I just installed the Performance Release of C News on our campus-wide
news servers last weekend and it seems as though something is broken.

I'm calling relaynews with `-g' on our news numbering master machine
and with `-b umn.edu' on our slave news reading machines (the ones
people have access to on campus).

Unfortunately, I'm seeing it where the cross-posted article is
correctly stored on the master machine, but on the slaves it is only
stored in the first group on the list of newsgroups and the Xref header
is stripped.  Additionally, the history entry only lists the first
group.

For example, I posted a test message in `umn.cs.test,umn.news-server.test'
and it shows up in the master's history file as 

<C0pnLn.Fsp@news2.cis.umn.edu>  726791126~-     umn.cs.test/126 umn.news-server.test/214

On the slaves, it ends up being

<C0pnLn.Fsp@news2.cis.umn.edu>  726791314~-     umn.cs.test/126

It is physically only present in the umn/cs/test directory and the Xref
header (which was present in the copy on the master) has been deleted.

I turned newsrunning off and grabbed the article before it was
processed by relaynews on the client and it had a reasonable Xref line.
Specifically, it was 

  ! rnews 586 news2.cis.umn.edu
  Xref: umn.edu umn.cs.test:126 umn.news-server.test:214
  Newsgroups: umn.cs.test,umn.news-server.test

I'm running SunOS 4.1.2 and I believe I applied all of the
known.problems patches.  I'm not using the fast stdio stuff.  Has
anyone seen this?  I find it hard to believe that something like this
has gone unnoticed all this time so I suspect it is somehow my fault.
:-)

Thanks!
-- 
Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Supercomputer Inst., Technical Support
SGI Iris Admin        molenda@jason.msi.umn.edu       DoD #1867     '77 CB750F

Re: Problem with C News slave/master numbering and Xref'ed articles?

#5107

Author: Geoff Collyer
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:02

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Jason Molenda:
>I'm calling relaynews with `-g' on our news numbering master machine
>and with `-b umn.edu' on our slave news reading machines
[...]
>I'm running SunOS 4.1.2 and I believe I applied all of the
>known.problems patches.  I'm not using the fast stdio stuff.  Has
>anyone seen this?  I find it hard to believe that something like this
>has gone unnoticed all this time so I suspect it is somehow my fault.
>:-)

The replication code was new and marked as somewhat experimental in the
performance release.  I believe this diff will fix the problems you are
seeing:

*** relay/fileart.c.old	Mon Jan 11 19:56:34 1993
--- relay/fileart.c	Mon Jan 11 19:56:35 1993
***************
*** 164,169 ****
--- 164,174 ----
  	}
  	if (ngs == NULL)
  		art->a_status |= ST_DROPPED;		/* bummer */
+ 	else
+ 		/* convert any spaces to commas for fileart */
+ 		for (groups = ngs; *groups != '\0'; groups++)
+ 			if (*groups == ' ')
+ 				*groups = NGSEP;
  	return ngs;
  }
  
***************
*** 222,227 ****
--- 227,234 ----
  			gotgoodng(art, ng, artnumstr);
  		free(ng);
  
+ 		if (numb != NULL)		/* number supplied? */
+ 			*--numb = XREFDELIM;	/* restore lost byte */
  		if (comma != NULL)
  			*comma++ = NGSEP;	/* step past comma */
  
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group

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