Re: URGENT: DON'T USE 2.0B3 - SECURITY ISSUES! (was: [leafnode-list]

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

Mark Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:32:00PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > You don't expect the leafnode target group to be able to judge on the
> > stability. If fetchnews - run from cron - crashes occasionally, they
> > won't notice. If it inserts junk of drops an article, they may not
> > notice.
> 
> 1.9.17 fetchnews certainly hangs every once in a while, leaving a lock
> file and running process.

That is probably a result of short interruptions in the connection. As
mentioned before, fetchnews is almost unable to handle these events.

--Cornelius.

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