perl-nocem

[Marco d'Itri]

On May 14, Christoph Biedl <cbiedl at gmx.de> wrote:

> Linux (or at least Sys::Syslog) does not support the "error" priority.
> Therefore perl-nocem will die in case of an error, and without logging the
> error message.
> 
> My instant patch is
The correct name for the severity is "err". Please fix the invocations
of logmsg() instead.

> At the moment perl-nocem forks a 'ctlinnd cancel' for each article to be
> cancelled which I consider rather expensive. No doubt a (in shell) "cat
> list | grephistory -s | xargs sm -r" is much fast but this does not
> block the Message-ID in the history if the article is not there yet. I'd
> like to combine best of both worlds, probably using a "bulkcancel" helper
> program that reads Message-IDs from stdin send sends them to innd via the
> control channel. Is there something like that already available?
Almost. Look at http://www.linux.it/~md/software/News-ICC-0.2.tar.gz

Beware: the timestamp of this file is 1999, so it probably needs some
cleanups to update it to modern perl style.
Then it should be integrated in the INN distribution.

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ciao,
Marco