On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Carl Fink wrote: :I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after :upgrading inn. I have now figured out the problem. : :Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a :corrupt history.dir file. Theoretically running makehistory as I did :should have cleared this, but it didn't. In the end I had to delete :history.dir and replace it with the "clean" one from the package. : :Really, I don't think the inn package should corrupt history.dir, and :would consider this a bug.
After installing INN myself and having my server crash a few times due to bad SCSI drives, I'd have to note that inn is _very_ touchy. If you replaced any of the files in /var/lib/news during the upgrade, it seems likely to me that inn wasn't happy when it restarted. : :Another bug for the maintainer: the new ppp package prevented me from :running the pon script as non-root. It happens that I knew how to fix :this (chmod the pppd executable to make it runnably by mere mortals), :but a beginner would be stumped. A better idea, read the docs and make ppp users members of group "dip". Security is not a bug. : :And another: upgrading the DOSEMU package not only replaced my :/etc/dosemu/conf file, but *wiped it out*, forcing me to reconfigure :from scratch. : :I have good backups, but again someone else might have had the program :rendered unusable. I consider all three of these significant bugs. :The first one wasted a full day of my time, not something I consider :trivial. : :Thanks for listening. :-- :Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum :<http://dm.net> : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . :Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
