Acbosgd.2173 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Thu Mar 25 13:58:09 1982 Re: net.general.ctl From: mark (Mark Horton) From cbosg!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!hastings Thu Mar 25 12:46:07 1982 Date: 25-Mar-82 11:13:07-EST (Thu) From: cbosg!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!hastings Subject: net.general.ctl Via: cbosgd.uucp (V3.73 [1/5/82]); 25-Mar-82 12:46:07-EST (Thu) Mail-From: cbosg received by cbosgd at 25-Mar-82 12:46:05-EST (Thu) To: ihps3!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Say, Mark, what's the straight poop on SYSWIDE in readr.c? Do you want it defined or no? SYSWIDE should be defined, but you can turn it off if you want to have local only cancelling of articles. In 2.4 there will be a runtime check, since, while it's harmless to send out a network wide cancel message for a local article, it's unnecessary and wasteful. Rnews as distributed has a problem with control messages: when is_ctl is set, the header hasn't been read yet, so is_ctl never gets set in rnews. I fixed it by moving the code to test for is_ctl several places in the ensuing if..else if...else code, making it appropriate for each case. That was a bug in 2.2. The fix is to duplicate the is_ctl test ONCE, inside the mode==PROC case, after the call to ngcat. It was fixed in 2.3. In general, there were lots of bugs in 2.2 - anyone running 2.2 should convert to 2.3 ASAP. If you're missing the diff let me know and I'll mail it - it was posted to net.sources about a week ago. There are also public copies of 2.3 in several major machines in ~uucp/news.tar. Several administrators I have spoken with were confused by the ctl messages flying around... perhaps you could enlighten us? Glad to. Any message matching all.all.ctl is a control message. Currently some messages are going to net.general.ctl - that will be changed to net.msg.ctl in 2.4 to make life easier on those systems that haven't converted yet. But I do strongly recommend that all sites convert to a released B news, that is 2.3 or newer. 2.3 has several minor bugs but nothing major has surfaced. It seems to be healthy enough to install with no qualms. If you continue to run a B prerelease or an A news, you will get stored copies of all control messages, which your users probably would rather not see. This is the main reason I urge conversion. If you have a great deal of local mods, let Matt know about them (ucbvax!arpavax:usenet) and if you do the coding in a current B news, chances are good they will be bought back. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.