A few people were very helpful when I asked for help with the password problem a while back. What I wound up doing, however, was just using nntpproxy on port 120 of the same machine. nntpproxy supports userauth in a less kludgey manner. Cheers, -Brian On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Allan Olesen wrote: > > On 16 Nov 1999 21:28:06 +1100, Matt Jackson <mjj-news@frogdream.com> > wrote: > > >Well here's what I use, it's not pretty but it's effective for > >me. Basically, it adds two optional parameters (user and password) to > >the server line in nntpcache.servers > > For some reason the patch won't work. I am not too familiar with > patch, but I have earlier managed to patch my wine source, and I had > hoped that this would be just as easy :o) > > It seems that the patch only affects 4 files, ll.h, sockets.c, > nntpcache.c and nnconf.c, total size 61 kB. Could you instead post > these files? > > ...or perhaps the patch problem could be solved. Here is what I did: > - placed the patch in /usr/src, > - cd'ed to usr/src/nntpcache-2.3.3/src > - patch -p1 -N --verbose <../../nntpcache.patch > > Here is the output: > >mm...(Fascinating -- this is really a new-style context diff but without > >the telltale extra asterisks on the *** line that usually indicate > >the new style...) > > Looks like a context diff to me... > >The text leading up to this was: > >-------------------------- > >|# This is a patch for nntpcache-2.3.3.orig/src to update it to nntpcache-2.3.3/src. > >|# It was generated by makepatch 1.93 (2.0BETA) on Tue Nov 16 21:23:29 1999. > >|# > >|# To apply this patch, chdir to source directory nntpcache-2.3.3.orig/src and enter > >|# > >|# patch -p1 -N < <this-file> > >| > >|exit > >|# End of preamble. > >| > >|# Patch input follows. > >|__DATA__ > >|Index: ll.h > >|Prereq: 1.2 > >|####### nntpcache-2.3.3/src/ => src > >|*** src/ll.h Mon Aug 3 06:35:01 1998 > >|--- src/ll.h Thu Oct 14 19:28:30 1999 > >-------------------------- > >Good. This file appears to be the 1.2 version. > >Patching file `ll.h' using Plan A... > >(Fascinating -- this is really a new-style context diff but without > >the telltale extra asterisks on the *** line that usually indicate > >the new style...) > >Hunk #1 FAILED at 96. > >1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to ll.h.rej > (The rest is snipped - it is the same for the following files) > > My system is vanila RH6.0 with patch version 2.5. I have checked that > ll.h.rej exists, and the lines from 96 through 101 looks like > expected. > > Suggestions? > > -- > Allan Olesen, Lunderskov > Postet fra Agent - den bedste newsreader til Linux. >
