[leafnode-list] ANNOUNCE: leafnode-2.0b5_ma3

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I spent over a day hacking away on 2.0b5_ma2, fixing bad concepts
(syslog, mostly), developing workarounds and abstractions and again
fiddling around. Note the security bugfixes in rnews. I cannot test the
fixed rnews, don't use UUCP for news; please comment.

http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/testing/
148k leafnode-2.0b5_ma3.tar.bz2
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Changelog excerpt:

- - Now has a new configuration file switch named avoidxover, if that is
  non-zero, then prefer XHDR over XOVER (only possible if not delaying
  bodies and not filtering).

- - Reintroduce XOVER, make preferring XOVER over XHDR the default. INN is
  DEAD slow on XHDR, and INN is in widespread use.

- - No longer uses syslog directly (avoids excess printf statements), but
  has a all-in-one-log-to-syslog-and-console function. system
  dependencies encapsulated in separate file.

- - miscutil.c: bugfix, drops root privileges BEFORE making
  directories. Now makes all needed directories. (Removed from Makefile).

- - Bugfixes with unsigned long wrapping in fetchnews.c, which would then
  fetch the world on the second invokation. Also recognizes "no new
  news" again. Fixes to off-by-one errors.

- - SECURITY bugfixes in rnews.c. (was vulnerable against all kinds of
  /tmp races, now uses mkstemp).

- - Add some missing strerror(errno) to logging.

Maintainer only: Now uses gperf to speed up parsing, currently only for 
config file.

- -- 
Matthias Andree
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