System V and news expire
Mike Van Pelt
vanpelt at unisv.UUCP
Fri Jun 10 09:04:28 AEST 1988
Has anyone else seen a problem with compiling netnews under System V on a
Tahoe machine? News seems to run pretty much OK, except expire has
serious problems: The 'oldest message' is set equal to 'newest message'
in most news groups, but the actual article files in /usr/spool/news
are seldom if ever actually deleted. I've been reduced to never running
expire, and running a brute-force "find older & rm" script instead.
The make (patch level 14) gets the following diagnostics.
"control.c", line 895: warning: illegal pointer combination
"control.c", line 896: warning: illegal pointer combination
"control.c", line 897: warning: illegal pointer combination
"funcs.c", line 160: warning: illegal pointer combination
"funcs.c", line 161: warning: illegal pointer combination
"recnews.c", line 425: warning: illegal pointer combination
"recnews.c", line 426: warning: illegal pointer combination
"recnews.c", line 427: warning: illegal pointer combination
"compress.c", line 316: warning: illegal pointer combination
"compress.c", line 316: warning: illegal pointer combination
"rfuncs.c", line 835: warning: illegal pointer combination
"readr.c", line 183: warning: illegal pointer combination
"readr.c", line 185: warning: illegal pointer combination
"visual.c", line 1794: warning: illegal pointer combination
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