problem with inn-2.2.1 and tagged-hash history files

[Craig Dewick]

[ posted to my local helpdesk newsgroup for the information of people
using my server, as well as being emailed ]

Hello,

I configured and installed inn-2.2.1 yesterday to replace version 2.1 on
my server machine, and I deliberately specified '--enable-tagged-hash'
amongst other things when I ran the configure script (which I had done
with 2.1 as well).

However, when I installed v2.2.1 (which all compiled successfully) over
the top of 2.1, and re-ran 'makehistory' to rebuild the history database,
it did *not* rebuild it using the tagged-hash library functions, but
insisted on using the old-style dbm method. I initially thought this might
be ok, but the new innd binary barfed and exited the very first time it
tried to write to the history database complaining with this error
message:

Oct 17 15:27:58 jedi innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /news/db/history Argument out of domain

I checked and rechecked the configuration, which was this:

sh ./configure --prefix=/news --with-perl --with-sendmail=/usr/lib/sendmail --enable-tagged-hash

and I also went through the include files that the configure script said
to check, but nothing looked untoward when I diffed them against the same
files that were created when I configured Inn 2.1 at the time I built it.

The end result was that I decided to abandon the installation of v2.2.1,
and I just re-installed 2.1 back over the top of all the 2.2.1 binaries,
etc. and now Inn is running correctly on my news server again.

Have there been any other reported problems like this with Inn 2.2.1? My
news server machine is a Sparc 10 which is currently running SunOS 5.6
(which will be changing soon to an Axil 420 running SunOS 5.7, but I
imagine the exact same problem will occur with Inn 2.2.1 on the new
machine). I use gcc (currently version 2.8.1) as the compiler on that
machine.

Regards,

Craig.

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