Subject: INN patches
From: Dave Gymer <dpg@Cs.Nott.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 10:53:24 +0000

Okay, here are the patches and config file to get INN 1.3 (which
turned out to be almost identical to 1.2) to compile and run under
Linux.  You should edit the config file first to ensure that it
matches your desired setup, particularly the pathnames.

Getting trn 2.5 to compile to use INN 1.3 is trivial, providing that
you are happy to locally thread files (either using tmpthread, or the
NNTP version of mthread).  I don't use any other newsreader, and
haven't even looked at them (except GNUS, and that was before nntp).

I did try to port bog-standard NNTP 1.5.foo, but gave up.

The principle problem was that UNIX domain datagram sockets on Linux
are nowhere near powerful enough for INN.  I just hacked the control
port to use a named pipe instead; the local connection is a UNIX
domain stream socket.

I suspect there may still be a lurking bug in there which sucks up
file descriptors, but it hasn't bitten since 1.3 (which I only
installed last nite) so maybe it's gone.  (I wish Rich Salz had
included a ChangeLog.)

Happy news reading!

-- Dave