rnews: cant open_remote Illegal seek

[Russ Allbery]

bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

>   I'm doing a sort of content based feed for a site. All articles in
> some groups are scanned by a small perl program, and if they have
> certain things they are fed to another site. Now, since I have the whole
> article in memory in the program, I tried to do the feed by opening a
> pipe to rnews and pushing in the article:

>   open(RNEWS, "|rnews -h localhost -r remote -P 433") || die "rnews";
>   print RNEWS $Post;
>   close RNEWS;

>   I get the "rnews: cant open_remote Illegal seek" error in the log.

Try this patch:

--- rnews.c     2000/03/20 22:32:58     1.24
+++ rnews.c     2000/08/10 17:25:37
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@
        return FALSE;
 
     *buff = '\0';
-    if (NNTPsendpassword((char *)NULL, FromServer, ToServer) < 0) {
+    if (NNTPsendpassword(server, FromServer, ToServer) < 0) {
        int oerrno = errno;
        (void)fclose(FromServer);
        (void)fclose(ToServer);

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>