Re: [leafnode-list] New to leatnode, need a bit of help.

["Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keep me posted, I have it running off a sheel kept in screen and I am
loving the effects it has. 

TIA

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oisin Curtin was heard blurting out:

> Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
> > 
> > Oisin,
> >   FreeBSD does not have an inittab. It probably has that function
> 
> Uh-oh, that's a small problem. 
> The next version will be able to get that function from crontab
> by having a lock-file that will prevent two copies of it from running. 
> I'll do that ASAP.  In the meantime, you can run it detached (see man 
> nohup) but you won't have it autostart in case of failure. 
> 
> >  What do you consider linuxism in the
> 
> Hmm.  I had a quick look at the code this afternoon at work and posted 
> an answer to that.  I guess it bounced 'cause I'm "from" the official 
> work email address.  <sigh>
> 
> Linux uses a special filesystem mounted at /proc.  My first method of 
> finding out if news was being read was to look here to see if a newsreader 
> was running.  You don't need that test anyway, it's duplicated with better 
> code that was added in just before I posted it on the web. 
> 
> Find the line near the bottom: 
>    if(  ShouldCheck(CYCLE_READ) && (timeUserFound > (time(0) - 30))  ){
> change that line to:
>    if( 0 ){
> and you should be OK.  The compiler will probably issue a warning about
> the code being unreachable.  I'll post a real fix along with the lock 
> so you can run from crontab. 
> 
> Just in case it still crashes, compile it for debug with this command: 
>     g++ -g -o freshnews freshnews.cc
> If it crashes again, gdb will be able to show the line that caused the 
> fault.  When you load it into gdb, give the command "info stack", that 
> will tell what part of the line is executing. 
> 
> 
> --
> Oisin  "Curly++"  Curtin                            ocurtin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Surface Liaison, Minetown Digger                           Send no SPAM.
>                                        http://pages.infinit.net/curlypp/
> 
> -- 
> leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- mailing list for leafnode
> To unsubscribe, send mail with "unsubscribe" in the subject to the list
> 

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ron Rosson          			      ... and a UNIX user said ...
The InSaNe One                 			      rm -rf *
insane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx     	            and all was /dev/null and *void()
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	   Rule #5: Computers are a Discordian conspiracy.

-- 
leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- mailing list for leafnode
To unsubscribe, send mail with "unsubscribe" in the subject to the list