Acbosgd.2094
net.news.b
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Mon Mar  1 20:41:37 1982
Re: Jay Lepreau's fix to inews
From: mark (Mark Horton)
The bug was that if you tried to create a nonlocal newsgroup, inews would
complain that the newsgroup already exists and not create it anywhere else
except on your local system.  It worked fine for local groups.

Jay's fix fixed the nonlocal case but broke the local case.  It would depend
on a control message to create the group, but for local newsgroups there is
no control message, and the command did nothing.

Here is a fix that will handle both cases correctly.

*** newsdist/src/inews.c	Mon Mar  1 09:59:35 1982
--- news/inews.c	Mon Mar  1 20:30:03 1982
***************
*** 303,309
  		xerror("No such newsgroup - aborted");
  	if (uid != ROOTID && uid != geteuid() && uid)
  		xerror("Get a network guru to create it for you");
- 	mknewsg(dir);
  
  	/* Broadcast the new newsgroup */
  	strcpy(class, ngname);

--- 303,308 -----
  		xerror("No such newsgroup - aborted");
  	if (uid != ROOTID && uid != geteuid() && uid)
  		xerror("Get a network guru to create it for you");
  
  	/* Broadcast the new newsgroup */
  	strcpy(class, ngname);
***************
*** 311,317
  		;
  	if (*cp)
  		*cp = 0;
! 	else
  		exit(0);	/* Local newsgroup */
  	sprintf(bfr, "inews -n %s.msg.ctl -t newgroup %s", class, ngname);
  	printf("Please type in a paragraph describing the new newsgroup.\n");

--- 310,317 -----
  		;
  	if (*cp)
  		*cp = 0;
! 	else {
! 		mknewsg(dir);
  		exit(0);	/* Local newsgroup */
  	}
  	sprintf(bfr, "inews -n %s.msg.ctl -t newgroup %s", class, ngname);
***************
*** 313,318
  		*cp = 0;
  	else
  		exit(0);	/* Local newsgroup */
  	sprintf(bfr, "inews -n %s.msg.ctl -t newgroup %s", class, ngname);
  	printf("Please type in a paragraph describing the new newsgroup.\n");
  	printf("End with control D as usual.\n");

--- 313,319 -----
  	else {
  		mknewsg(dir);
  		exit(0);	/* Local newsgroup */
+ 	}
  	sprintf(bfr, "inews -n %s.msg.ctl -t newgroup %s", class, ngname);
  	printf("Please type in a paragraph describing the new newsgroup.\n");
  	printf("End with control D as usual.\n");

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