rnews: cant open_remote Illegal seek

[N]

Russ Allbery wrote:

>>   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);

You'll run into this when nnrpdposthost is set in inn.conf (i.e. you're
running INN in Xref slave mode or similar).  I did almost a year ago,
sorry for apparently not sending in the patch then...

TIE,


	-- Niels.