OK, found the cause of your SEGV problem. Newshound did not find any active
newsgroups (hence File :- /usr/local/var/nntpcache/hound.rf has 0 lines),
but was trying to sort the (NULL) result anyway. Added a check to prevent
this when no active groups found. A4patch2 source is attached.
Before newshound will find your active newsgroups you need to run a
newsreader against nntpcache and retrieve some articles, so that the
nntpcache pointers get updated.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
newshound_a4patch2.tar.Z
