INN 2.5.2: Minor sendinpaths bug

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Dec 31 03:54:16 UTC 2012


River Tarnell <river at RT.UK.EU.ORG> writes:

> Every day, I receive the following mail:

> 	Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:10:00 +0000 (GMT)
> 	From: Cron Daemon <news at ARYA.ORG.UK>
> 	To: news at ARYA.ORG.UK
> 	Subject: Cron <news at tamara> /usr/local/news/bin/sendinpaths
> 	
> 	62955: old priority 0, new priority 20

> The problem is this line in bin/sendinpaths:

> 	# Renice to give other processes priority, since this isn't too important.
> 	renice 20 -p $$ > /dev/null

> On FreeBSD, the renice output goes to stderr.

Fixed in INN 2.5.3 by dint of replacing the script with a rewritten
version in Perl.

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