OK, I'll have another look and see if I can find the problem. Cheers, Mat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hewitt" <richard.hewitt@one-ten.com> To: <nntpcache-users@suburbia.net> Cc: "'Mat Williamson'" <mat@spam69.demon.co.uk> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:07 AM Subject: NNTPC: NNTP authorisation + newshound > > Many thanks for that, but it didn't work alas. > > I am not by any means a C programmer, but I've got the conceptuals of how it > works. > So I put newshound (both the one you sent me and the old one) into gdb like > so: > > > [root@phoenix newshound]# gdb newshound > > This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"... > (gdb) run -d 1 -c > Starting program: /root/nntpcache-2.3.3/contrib/newshound/newshound -d 1 -c > Collecting newsgroups. > File :- /usr/local/var/nntpcache/hound.rf has 0 lines. > Sorting array. > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > strcpy (dest=0xbffffa10 "158.152.254.67/alt/binaries/screen-savers/63488\n", > src=0x0) at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:37 > 37 ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c: No such file or directory. > (gdb) > > > Well, I cant find a file called strcpy.c on my system, or either of the > directories it references. > Greping for it in the newshound source reveals nowt (apart from the numbers of > strcpy function calls dotted about. > I guess it's a problem with my libraries/library path/something similar? > > Any suggestions? > > Many thanks, > > Richard. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mat Williamson [mailto:mat@spam69.demon.co.uk] > > Sent: 01 September 2000 1:48 > > To: nntpcache-users@suburbia.net > > Cc: Richard Hewitt > > Subject: Re: NNTPC: NNTP authorisation + newshound > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > >
