Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:3801 comp.sys.att:7692 comp.sources.bugs:1974 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!spdcc!gnosys!gst 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 Lines: 20 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