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Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:06:13 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen) writes:
> > > Awrighty, I just installed the new nntpd on the other 3 ports. Now all
> > > four ports of 119, 1119, 8000, and 8080 have the new nntpd.
> >
> > Spiffy! Are you going to make the patches publicly available somewhere?
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> The patches are pretty simple, just line replacements, and the second one
> (the ltod() one) is a semi-bogus hack that could blow up other parts of the
> nntpd if anyone ever adds additional calls to ltod() that assumed a
> 6-character output string (I changed its interface from 6-character output
> to 8-character output) but other than that, the changes seem OK.
>
> Yeah, I'll post them somewhere on Usenet if somebody else hasn't already
> beat me to it. I already posted them here on this thread earlier, although
> they're more in a "follow-along" form than a simple "point and click without
> having to think" form.
OK, just found this via Deja.com -- a guy named Dan Glover did some
relatively extensive work on this about 3-4 weeks ago:
http://www.dangl.freeserve.co.uk/linux/news/y2k.html
I think his solutions are a bit more robust than what I did[1], and I'll
probably install his patch in place of my mods the next time I have to
rebuild the nntpd.
> > Maybe there's a CNews newsgroup?
>
> Hmm, is there a CNews newsgroup? I don't think so (as such). Now that you
> mention it, I think there's a BNews newsgroup, and that's what's used for
> CNews. I should have checked there in November or December for potential
> Y2K problems.
OK, I remember the name of the BNews newsgroup now... it's:
news.software.b
--Todd
[1] I completely ignored backward-compatible support for obsolete BNews-style
history entries in ltod(), for example.
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