Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!usc!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!maxim!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Ultrix 3 and News 3.0 Summary: More problems Message-ID: <840@maxim.erbe.se> Date: 3 Oct 89 16:28:29 GMT References: <8910021303.AA01805@edison.CHO.GE.COM> Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jarfalla, Sweden Lines: 27 In article <8910021303.AA01805@edison.CHO.GE.COM> rjawrites: > I copied the News 3.0/TMNN sources via anonymous FTP from Berkeley a couple >of weeks back and have spent some frustrating time trying to bring it up here >on edison. I suspect that the problems lie mostly with Ultrix peculiarities, >but the folks working on News 3.0 need to know that none of the shell scripts >to do automatic configuration and such work properly under Ultrix 3.x. I got a copy of TMNN 7.8 sent to me and tried to bring it up on an Encore Multimax running UMAX V 2.2. There were a couple of problems with Makefile.dst, a few source files that needed to be corrected and so on. After a couple of evening's worth of work, I succeeded to compile it without any errors, but, after having installed the package, expire wouldn't run, even though I asked it to rebuild the history file from the existing news files. I got some error with the history file. The install script created .../history, where it really should've been history.{pag,dir,map} (or something similar; anyway, three files). I created those (empty) files, but expire still wouldn't work. So I finally gave up. This is absolutely not a flame. The source looks very well written and easily maintainable. It's just that it needs some further work to compile and run properly on a number of machines. It's still a beta release, after all, and I'd love to bring it up on our system. -- Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB