Chris Wedgwood writes:
> I have had lots of problems using most straight versions of NN with
> anything but a direct news service.
>
>Virgin nn seems to have a problems. nn-tk does however work.
>
> There is a small issue with it, in that it doesn't like talking NNTP
> with a server on the same host as it is running. I have a patch if
> this is a problem for you.
>
>Hmm...I wouldn't mind actually. At the moment its not a big deal as I have
>my dialup in another box which I connect to via Ethernet.
OK, here it is. It's pretty simple really. The author assumed that
your nntp server has a full /usr/spool/news, and so decides not to
use nntp when running on the same machine as the server.
This is for nn-tk.16.0. I don't know if there are any newer versions...
Cheers,
Duncan.
*** nn-tk.16.0/nntp.c Fri Jul 18 05:09:34 1997
--- nn-tk.16.0.DIS/nntp.c Tue Jul 22 16:14:54 1997
***************
*** 1016,1022 ****
} else {
server_real_name = nntp_server;
}
! use_nntp = (strcmp(host, server_real_name) != 0);
} else {
use_nntp = 0;
}
--- 1016,1023 ----
} else {
server_real_name = nntp_server;
}
! /* use_nntp = (strcmp(host, server_real_name) != 0); */
! use_nntp = 1;
} else {
use_nntp = 0;
}
