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From: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: B news 2.11 patch 18 considered harmful
Summary: Yup, I ran a "make update"
Message-ID: <393@gnosys.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 23:29:45 GMT
References: <392@gnosys.UUCP>
Reply-To: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Followup-To: unix-pc.general
Organization: gst's 3B1 - Somerville, Massachusetts
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In article <392@gnosys.UUCP> gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:

> ...I naively patched my sources, which were at patchlevel 17, and got
> a very corrupted situation in my /usr/spool/news/* directories...
> the sort of thing I found:

Before anyone asks, I thought I should say that I did follow the instructions
below:

|	make update now checks to see if you have defined LINES large
|		enough to support your existing active file
|
|Fix:
|	cd src and make install;make update
|
|	YOU MUST "make update" or your active file will be in the wrong
|	format
-- 
Gary S. Trujillo			      gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts		      {wjh12,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst