I had the same problem with newshound on redhat 6.2 causing segmentation
faults. It turned out that the program was trying to close files which were
not actually open, which my version of Linux did not like.
I did some work on the code and fixed this problem then went on to add some
additional code to deal with error conditions a bit better plus various
other stuff, mostly geared to running newshound on dialup connections which
drop unexpectedly. The attached tarball contains my version of the source
code and the contents should be extracted into the contrib directory of the
nntpcache source. Compile this and install and your SEGV problem should be
fixed.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Mat.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hewitt" <richard.hewitt@one-ten.com>
To: <nntpcache-users@suburbia.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:14 AM
Subject: NNTPC: NNTP authorisation + newshound
>
> I've read the FAQ and searched the net but couldn't find the answers to
the
> questions below - can anyone help me?
>
> 1) I want to set up nntpcache so that clients have to enter
username/password
> to be able to access the cache server.
> In the nntpcache.access file it says that the AUTHINFO code has been
> disabled - is there any other way to force username/password validation or
is
> the only way to control access via IP address?
>
> 2) I am trying to use the contributed app newshound. nntpcache works fine
for
> pulling down messages, but when I try to run newshound as per the README
file
> for the first time it says
>
> File :- /usr/local/var/nntpcache/hound.rf has 0 lines.
> Sorting array.
> Seg fault core dumped.
>
>
> /usr/local/var/nntpcache/hound.rf
> and
> /usr/local/var/nntpcache/hound.sf both exist but are zero bytes.
>
> Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?
>
>
> OS Redhat Linux 6.2
> nntpcache ver 2.2.3
> Newshound ver 2.0
>
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Richard Hewitt
>
>
>
newshound_a4patch1.1.tar.Z
