> Hallo, > > > nntpcached still doesn't work on our Unixware 2.03, but I haven't > > investigated it very much yet. All it seems to do is that it syslogd the > > 'cwd now /etc/nntpcache' line and exits. It leaves the following files in > > /var/spool/newscache: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Sep 3 23:04 cache.mmap > > -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 392 Sep 3 23:04 nntpcache.stats > > Just the same as with Solaris 2.5... > Compilation isn't a problem, but execution... > > Ciao! > /Frank I think I have fixed this (maybe ;)). The problem is that the nntpcache master process must mmap() around 16mb of dataspace before creating any children, due to the way shared memory is inherrited. Previously nntpcache used a MAP_FIXED of 0x20000000 inorder to provide consistancy in the mappings. Some OS's didn't like having mmaps() in that region and Sparc Ultra's refuse to do MAP_FIXED *at-all*. This is further complicated by the fact that linux only does shared mappings on files, some systems refuse to shared mappings on files at all and some systems use MMAP_ANON and others emmulate MMAP_ANON via mmaping /dev/zero. That's simplifying things a little ;) I have Solaris2.3 (sparc), linux2.0 and FreeBSD2.2-current machines. Ports to these seem to be working correctly at the time of writing. Linux1.2.13, Ultrix and NeXT boxes will fail due to lack of correct mmap support. Just about everything else *should* work fine now (at least in terms of mmaping) Someone mentioned tin freezing. When article filters were on, and the article was not in the cache, emit_follows() wasn't being called correctly. I'll cut a new version in a few hours. -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
