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From: shane@utdallas.edu (Shane Davis)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: trn 3.3 released
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Date: 1 Sep 1993 16:13:29 GMT
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George Baltz (gwb@falstaff.umd.edu) wrote:
> In article <CCA0G5.G59@borland.com>, Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com> wrote:
> >New features:
> >
> > o  Trn's newsetup script now supports the NEWSLIB/subscriptions file as a
> >    default set of groups to use in a new user's subscription.  Newsetup will
> >    attempt to get the subscriptions file via NNTP if your NNTP server
> >    supports "LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS" (INN and my NNTP t4 release do).
> >
> Does INN 1.4 really support "list subscriptions"?  I tried telneting to my 
> SMTP port and got an error on it, and it's not in the help menu.  And
> yet, I've seen complaints(in the distant past) in the daily.sh output
> about trying to open /some/path/subscriptions.  I now have
> /usr/local/news/subscriptions, but it didn't make any difference.

> Then I looked at the nnrpd source, and no joy again.  It doesn't look
> too difficult to add, but I thought I'd check if anyone has a patch 
> before I started hacking.

> Sure would like to have this before the students get back.

I just patched it Friday...it was simple. In addition to the patch I'm posting
below, you need to add this line to config.data:

##  Where the NNRP automatic subscriptions file is (for tin)
#### =()<_PATH_NNRPSUBS         @<_PATH_NNRPSUBS>@>()=
_PATH_NNRPSUBS          /usr/lib/news/subscriptions

and this to paths.h:

    /* =()<#define _PATH_NNRPSUBS       "@<_PATH_NNRPSUBS>@">()= */

(Sorry I don't have a FULL patch together, just the patch for the C program
in nnrpd that needed changing...)

Here's nnrpd.patch.tin; apply it and rerun make nnrpd.

*** commands.c  Thu Mar 18 15:04:42 1993
--- commands.c  Fri Aug 27 16:52:32 1993
***************
*** 25,30 ****
--- 25,34 ----
      _PATH_NNRPDIST, "newsgroup distributions",
      "Distributions in form \"area description\""
  };
+ STATIC LISTINFO               INFOsubs = {
+     _PATH_NNRPSUBS, "automatic group subscriptions",
+     "Subscriptions in form \"group\""
+ };
  STATIC LISTINFO               INFOdistribpats = {
      _PATH_DISTPATS, "distribution patterns",
      "Default distributions in form \"weight:pattern:value\""
***************
*** 141,146 ****
--- 145,152 ----
        lp = &INFOactivetimes;
      else if (caseEQ(p, "distributions"))
        lp = &INFOdistribs;
+     else if (caseEQ(p, "subscriptions"))
+       lp = &INFOsubs;
      else if (caseEQ(p, "distrib.pats"))
        lp = &INFOdistribpats;
      else if (caseEQ(p, "newsgroups"))
***************
*** 170,176 ****

      /* Read lines, ignore long ones. */
      while ((p = QIOread(qp)) != NULL) {
!       if (lp == &INFOdistribs || lp == &INFOdistribpats) {
            Printf("%s\r\n", p);
            continue;
        }
--- 176,182 ----

      /* Read lines, ignore long ones. */
      while ((p = QIOread(qp)) != NULL) {
!       if (lp == &INFOdistribs || lp == &INFOdistribpats || lp ==
&INFOsubs) {
            Printf("%s\r\n", p);
            continue;
        }

[end of patch]

--Shane
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