nnrpd in the latest snapshots segfaults

Wed Dec 12 03:57:09 UTC 2001

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Kim Alm wrote:

> (gdb) bt
> #0  strcmp (p1=0x0, p2=0x81157e0 "hisv6") at ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c:38
> #1  0x806e9c2 in HISopen (path=0x814adf0 "/usr/local/news/db/history",
>     method=0x0, flags=0) at his.c:137
> #2  0x8066515 in SetupDaemon () at nnrpd.c:687

Oh.  I found it.  The latest CURRENT expects a "hismethod" parameter to be
set in inn.conf, and of course you don't have one.

I don't know anything about the changes in the history API, but it appears
that if you add "histmethod: hisv6" to inn.conf you can still use CURRENT
nnrpd with STABLE everything else.

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org