From marthag@MIT.EDU Sun Jan 30 21:30:55 1994 From: marthag@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 17:24:56 -0500 To: usenet@MIT.EDU Subject: [news.software.b] Re: writing symlinking article file problem ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: writing symlinking article file problem Date: 28 Jan 1994 13:06:04 -0500 Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute NNTP-Posting-Host: bosnia.pop.psu.edu In article <2ibd3b$3qr@meaddata.meaddata.com>, David Myers wrote: > Here's an unofficial patch to 1.4 so that running multiple rmgroups >while throttled doesn't munge the active file. FYI this patch has been added to the "unofficial INN 1.4 patch archive" in ftp://ftp.pop.psu.edu/pub/src/news/inn-patches/ Here is ftp://ftp.pop.psu.edu/pub/src/news/inn-patches/README The following are UNOFFICIAL patches to INN version 1.4 File: 1.4-to-1.4sec Description: Patch v 1.4 to 1.4sec. Security problem whereby control messages can possibly be used to execute arbitrary commands. File: 1.4sec-to-1.4sec2 Description: Small additional security patch in same vein as above patch. File: list-subscriptions-feature.patch Description: So nnrpd understands the LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS command that is used by many news readers (trn, and and others) to give the new user a default list of subscribed newsgroups. File: select-loop-bug.patch Description: Under some circumstances innd can lose track of a file descriptor and end up sitting in a select() loop. File: rmgroup-active-munge.patch Description: Fix so that running multiple rmgroups while innd is throttled doesn't munge the active file. File: nnrpd-identd-patch.shar.gz Author: skhuang@csie.nctu.edu.tw Description: add ident support to nnrpd. This also adds support for tin's XUSER and XMOTD commands, as well as LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS. WARNING! This file is NOT a patch, but rather contains replacement files! (FTP'd from: ftp.csie.nctu.edu.tw:/pub/news/nnrpd-identd-patch.shar.gz) File: jumbo-feaure-patch.shar Author: Robert Elz Date: May 1993 Description: a two-part jumbo patch that fixes the select() loop bug, as well as history file changes to expire regarding handling of absurd dates. It also adds the "logmode" and "feedinfo" commands to ctlinnd, and other various miscelanneous changes. See the README.* files. File: SONYNEWS-active-patch.gz Description: I don't read Japanese, but from reading the patch, this appears to be a workaround in innd to sync the active file (when a channel is closed?). File: recover.junk.gz Description: Not a patch. This is a script to move articles from "junk" into the correct newsgroup. File: maintain-newsgroup.shar Description: Not a patch. This is a script to update your newsgroups file from a known "good" copy like uunet's. -- "Peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting." - Ambrose Bierce ------- End of forwarded message -------