Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: rnews.sh bug Message-ID: <3063@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 02:08:27 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3063 Posted: Sat Jul 2 02:08:27 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 02:08:27 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19 Among the items in the "misc" directory in 2.10 was a shell file, otherwise undocumented, named "rnews.sh". This was a slightly touched-up version of something I submitted to the net a while ago: it invoked the real news system, but if something went wrong it sent the article and the error messages somewhere, so that something could be done about the problem. It contains a major bug, which I just discovered. Line 5 should read: if test -s /tmp/rnm$$ && grep -s -v '^Duplicate article ' /tmp/rnm$$ NOT if test -s /tmp/rnm$$ && grep -s -v '^Duplicate article ' The effect of the bug is that no trouble is ever reported. -- Henry Spencer U of Toronto {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry